SPARC Status (Was Re: Secondary Architecture Status?)

Matej Cepl mcepl at redhat.com
Tue May 12 15:41:00 UTC 2009


On 2009-05-11, 18:51 GMT, Josh Boyer wrote:
> I would really like to see a proliferation of secondary arches 
> in Fedora, but I don't think 'workstation' is a viable usage 
> model for them to get started.  Most will have to focus on the 
> type of hardware that actually sells for that arch, and yes 
> I realize that can be at odds with some of the directions 
> Fedora is going.

Off-topic note ... jchadima (now @RH, aka jfch) works as a hobby 
on porting Fedora to PA-RISC machines. Now he has three of them 
and they are building like crazy, except that they are now 
apparently stuck with some problems in glibc. It helps jfch was 
a teacher of jakub in CS at university :).

Matěj




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