PowerPC/POWER/Cell Special Interest Group
Members
- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
- Paul Nasrat
- Peter Lemenkov
- Stefan Posdzich (using a Playstation 3 with Fedora 9)
- Walter Justen
- Adrian Reber
- Karsten Hopp (PowerMac G5)
- Jiri Skala
Latest PPC Fedora release
Latest Fedora release for PPC is currently Fedora 12 and can be found from http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/12/Fedora/ppc/iso/
There are currently efforts ongoing to recompile all packages and prepare a F-15 release or if we find out that we are too far behind the primary archs to have a F-16 release. This is the current status of the package rebuild:
The PowerPC koji build system
All official Fedora PowerPC packages will be built by the koji build system at the PowerPC koji hub
All non-scratch packages that haven't been deleted by the garbage-collector are available at the package storage, scratch builds can be found for a few days at the scratch repository
Building packages on the PowerPC koji build system
Everyone with a Fedora account can do at least scratch builds of packages on the PowerPC koji build system, package maintainers who can check changes into the git repositories can build updated packages that will later on end up in the distribution.
Doing scratch builds
After running fedora-packager-setup from the fedora-packager rpm
ppc-koji build --scratch dist-f15 yourpkg.src.rpm
These builds will be removed from koji automatically after a while.
'real' builds
'Real' builds will be pulled into the package repositories and into the install images, unless they got replaces by later versions. After running fedora-packager-setup from the fedora-packager rpm
ppc-koji build dist-f15 "$(fedpkg giturl)"
or
fedpkg build --target=dist-f15
PPC Shell access for debugging
David Woodhouse (dwmw2) and Josh Boyer (jwboyer) may provide you access to a PPC box for build debugging purposes. Just send them an e-mail with an request and a public SSH key.
Applications/Libraries of Interest
- Mac-on-Linux - virtualization solution for PowerPC
Documentation
PowerPC Hardware
ApplePowerPC
PlayStation
Work needed
Bugzilla
Documentation
- We need step-by-step tutorials describing HOWTO setup Wi-Fi, Apple Bluetooth Mouse and Keyboard, where to find JRE and so on. See the next links (from Ubuntu, Debian and YellowDog):