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The AArch64 Architecture in the server space is a mature product with numerous platforms widely available for testing. We support both SBSA Enterprise Haware as well as a number of Single Board Computers, initially officially supported in Fedora 27 with the [[Changes/aarch64SBCImages | aarch64 SBC Feature]] with new device support being added all the time and more widely available and affordable hardware.
The AArch64 Architecture in the server space is a mature product with numerous platforms widely available for testing. We support both SBSA Enterprise Haware as well as a number of Single Board Computers, initially officially supported in Fedora 27 with the [[Changes/aarch64SBCImages | aarch64 SBC Feature]], with new device support being added all the time and more widely available and affordable hardware.


The changes is actually a minor one as we already produce all the deliverables as an Alternate Architecture, this primarily be a change of where the output of the artifacts are delivered on the mirrors and making the architecture a release blocking architecture.
The changes is actually a minor one as we already produce all the deliverables as an Alternate Architecture, this primarily be a change of where the output of the artifacts are delivered on the mirrors and making the architecture a release blocking architecture.

Revision as of 18:15, 2 November 2017



AArch64 Server Promotion

Summary

Promote Aarch64 server technologies to Primary Architecture status. This would include the Server installer, the DVD installer ISOs, the Cloud (qcow2 images) and Docker base images.

Owner

Owner

  • Name: Peter Robinson
  • Email: pbrobinson@fedoraproject.org
  • Name: Paul Whalen
  • Email: pwhalen@fedoraproject.org
  • Release notes owner:
  • Responsible WG: ARM SIG

Current status

  • Targeted release: Fedora 28
  • Last updated: 2017-11-02
  • Tracking bug:

Detailed Description

The AArch64 Architecture in the server space is a mature product with numerous platforms widely available for testing. We support both SBSA Enterprise Haware as well as a number of Single Board Computers, initially officially supported in Fedora 27 with the aarch64 SBC Feature, with new device support being added all the time and more widely available and affordable hardware.

The changes is actually a minor one as we already produce all the deliverables as an Alternate Architecture, this primarily be a change of where the output of the artifacts are delivered on the mirrors and making the architecture a release blocking architecture.

Benefit to Fedora

This feature

Scope

  • Proposal owners:
  • Other developers: N/A: There's no work required for other developers, the aarch64 architecture is already supported as an Alternate Architecture.
  • Release engineering: Needs approval from release engineering as a primary architecture as well as pungi configuration changes to output artifacts to new location on the primary mirror.
  • Policies and guidelines: Updates to the primary architectures and release blocking details will need to be updated to reflect that the AArch64 Server/Cloud/Docker components are now considered primary.
  • Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)

Upgrade/compatibility impact

No impact on upgrades, for AArch64 systems running Fedora 27 or older releases the upgrades will be seemless as Mirror Manager will automatically deal with the location of the new Fedora 28 content.

How To Test

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

User Experience

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Dependencies

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Contingency Plan

  • Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) Feature is already mostly complete, upstream stable release is scheduled will within the required release window
  • Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
  • Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change), Yes/No
  • Blocks product? product

Documentation

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Release Notes