AMD 64 - What can I do to help?

Mike Snitzer msnitzer at lnxi.com
Mon Nov 3 21:07:07 UTC 2003


On Mon, Nov 03 2003 at 13:40,
Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 05:57:40PM -0000, Pete Bradbury wrote:
> > Subject says it all.
> > 
> > Like to help as I've just got an AMD 64 FX gizzmo.
> > 
> > Just someone explain what I could do and I'll try to do some of the simpler
> > tasks...
> 
> Well, most of the simple development tasks just get done as part of
> building the packages, at least right now.
> 
> There's a community effort to put together Fedora Core 1 for AMD64
> and Red Hat is participating.  I'd say that since images should be
> available for testing soon, testing them on your hardware and reporting
> bugs, especially bugs that don't show up on x86, would be something
> very important.
> 
> Also, once it is available, helping QA packages for AMD64 in the
> fedora.su QA queue would be useful.

Awesome, its great to see RedHat is doing so much with AMD64 for Fedora so
close to the release of its enterprise AMD64 offering.

Very unexpected and cool!

Mike





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