Fedora/PPC

Colin Charles

colin@fedoraproject.org

http://www.bytebot.net/

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What is it?

Fedora that runs on PowerPC (PPC) architectures

These are common run-of-the-mill Macs or even the IBM POWER boxes

iBook's, PowerBooks, iMac's, G5's, miniMacs, eMac, etc...

Been around for quite a while (possibly since the Red Hat Linux days)

Churned out from the Red Hat build system

Core 1, 2, and 3 have had more users since each release, and for Core 4, we expect to make it an official from the build system

What we have working

Fedora on x86 and Fedora on PPC are alike

Very few packages are excluded from PPC (and some can actually be fixed

more are excluded from ppc64; these don't exceed 31 packages currently

All hardware is known to work, except for:

Airport Extreme

sleep in the newer iBook G4's and PowerBooks

fixed in a kernel patch (which we have binary kernels for)

Latest touchpads in the PowerBooks

3D accelerated graphics with some video cards (nvidia binary only drivers are x86)

modem (flaky, pay for possible)

Fedora Extras

What we want to have working

boot.iso and NFS installation option is a complicated choice for most users

better video detection, out-of-the-box

auto-partitioning

blessing the disk bootable

sound

patches for system-config-soundcard appeared in Bugzilla the day after I posted the to-do list

greater 64-bit support

“Just Works” power management; better battery life support

video-out on iBooks/Powerbooks

some of it works with apmud

Mac-On-Linux

hack on sheep.c and other funnies

How we achieve it

Fix the installer:

anaconda. Start building trees, and looking at the Python behind it

Fix system-config-display

Python

Fix system-config-soundcard

Python

apmud is in Extras for power management!

Kernel and userspace apps with gcc4?

How you can help

Try testing out the builds/releases

Join the coding (python, C always appreciated)

http://www.bytebot.net/geekdocs/ibook/fedorappc.html

Help out on list: fedora-ppc@lists.infradead.org

Join us on irc: irc.freenode.net, #fedora-ppc

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2005-02-18T07:16:36