* Fedora Xen PPC integration report 2/20 @ 2007-02-20 21:58 Jerone Young 2007-02-20 22:03 ` Jerone Young 2007-02-21 13:53 ` Daniel P. Berrange 0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Jerone Young @ 2007-02-20 21:58 UTC (permalink / raw) To: xen-devel; +Cc: Jimi Xenidis, Hollis Blanchard I'll go through some of what is going on. Our break down of packages can be found here: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenPPC/Fedora?highlight=%28Fedora%29 Fedora Community (PPC) ===================== IRC -- best place ~~~ server: irc.feenode.net (freenode) channel: #fedora-ppc Mailing List ~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ppc This list is not very active Fedora Core 7 ============= Currently PPC rawhide builds of Fedora core 7 have a lot of know issues (as I found out in IRC). Apparently there is a lot of work happening to the builds at the moment so FC7test3 MAY be a reliable build for PPC. Due to these problems I have been unable to create an environment to get Xen up and going under FC7 to see what may/may not be wrong with userspace tools. I am prodding people now! One sticking point that noone seems to be able to answer yet. Is does Fedora work on IBM System P systems. It looks to work for System I, but Feature freeze -------------- Has been moved back to March 19 Release date ------------ The release date has been moved to May 24th. They are going to attempt to rework the build system so the Fedora Core & Fedora Extras are combined to form Voltron! http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/7/Schedule kernel ------- So options CONFIG_PPC_MULTIPLATFORM (Jimi you called it CONFIG_PPC_GENERIC) is enabled. Which will allow for kernel integration. The Fedora PPC kernel maintainer is David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> He is more then happy to take in need changes if we can get them in and they don't break anything. Installer (anaconda) -------------------- The installer is unable to create "Prep" partitions which are used by IBM PPC machines to load up the boot loader (as opposed to the Master Boot Record everyone else uses). I've filed a bug on this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229231 IBM PPC Systems --------------- While it's supposed to work. I have yet to see this work with Global Firmware. Fedora 7 Extras =============== grub2 ------ In this space I started the prep work by packaging up grub2 for fedora-extras with fixes as suggested by Jermy Katz. The problem is no one has gotten to it. I have emailed the list today probing to see if someone would hurry up and review it and throw it in. The bugzilla for the review can be found here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=228255 More info as it comes but this is where things stand as of today. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: Fedora Xen PPC integration report 2/20 2007-02-20 21:58 Fedora Xen PPC integration report 2/20 Jerone Young @ 2007-02-20 22:03 ` Jerone Young 2007-02-21 13:53 ` Daniel P. Berrange 1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Jerone Young @ 2007-02-20 22:03 UTC (permalink / raw) To: xen-devel; +Cc: Jimi Xenidis, Hollis Blanchard Sorry about this guys sent this to the wrong list by accident. But please do enjoy ;-). On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 15:58 -0600, Jerone Young wrote: > I'll go through some of what is going on. Our break down of packages can > be found here: > http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenPPC/Fedora?highlight=%28Fedora%29 > > Fedora Community (PPC) > ===================== > IRC -- best place > ~~~ > server: irc.feenode.net (freenode) > channel: #fedora-ppc > > Mailing List > ~~~~~~~~~~~~ > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ppc > This list is not very active > > > Fedora Core 7 > ============= > Currently PPC rawhide builds of Fedora core 7 have a lot of know issues > (as I found out in IRC). Apparently there is a lot of work happening to > the builds at the moment so FC7test3 MAY be a reliable build for PPC. > Due to these problems I have been unable to create an environment to get > Xen up and going under FC7 to see what may/may not be wrong with > userspace tools. I am prodding people now! > > One sticking point that noone seems to be able to answer yet. Is does > Fedora work on IBM System P systems. It looks to work for System I, but > > Feature freeze > -------------- > Has been moved back to March 19 > > Release date > ------------ > The release date has been moved to May 24th. They are going to attempt > to rework the build system so the Fedora Core & Fedora Extras are > combined to form Voltron! > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/7/Schedule > > kernel > ------- > So options CONFIG_PPC_MULTIPLATFORM (Jimi you called it > CONFIG_PPC_GENERIC) is enabled. Which will allow for kernel integration. > > The Fedora PPC kernel maintainer is David Woodhouse > <dwmw2@infradead.org> > > He is more then happy to take in need changes if we can get them in and > they don't break anything. > > > Installer (anaconda) > -------------------- > The installer is unable to create "Prep" partitions which are used by > IBM PPC machines to load up the boot loader (as opposed to the Master > Boot Record everyone else uses). I've filed a bug on this: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229231 > > > IBM PPC Systems > --------------- > While it's supposed to work. I have yet to see this work with Global > Firmware. > > > Fedora 7 Extras > =============== > grub2 > ------ > In this space I started the prep work by packaging up grub2 for > fedora-extras with fixes as suggested by Jermy Katz. The problem is no > one has gotten to it. I have emailed the list today probing to see if > someone would hurry up and review it and throw it in. The bugzilla for > the review can be found here: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=228255 > > > More info as it comes but this is where things stand as of today. > > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: Fedora Xen PPC integration report 2/20 2007-02-20 21:58 Fedora Xen PPC integration report 2/20 Jerone Young 2007-02-20 22:03 ` Jerone Young @ 2007-02-21 13:53 ` Daniel P. Berrange 1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Daniel P. Berrange @ 2007-02-21 13:53 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Jerone Young; +Cc: Jimi Xenidis, xen-devel, Hollis Blanchard On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 03:58:06PM -0600, Jerone Young wrote: > I'll go through some of what is going on. Our break down of packages can > be found here: > http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenPPC/Fedora?highlight=%28Fedora%29 > > Fedora Community (PPC) > ===================== > IRC -- best place > ~~~ > server: irc.feenode.net (freenode) > channel: #fedora-ppc Neither of these places have any of the Fedora Xen maintainers present. If you want to get PPC Xen support into Fedora you'll need to make sure to have discussions / post plans to the public fedora-xen mailing list so that the Xen team can get involved. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/ I'm happy to include any patches neccessary for the Xen userspace, libvirt, virt-manager/virt-install tools, etc, since I doubt there will be many changes needed to support PPC. By far the biggest task will be getting a PPC Xen kernel tree sync'd up with the latest LKML tree used in Fedora 7. NB, at this time plan is still for Fedora 7 to ship Xen 3.0.4, simply because, even if it is released in time, we don't expect to have time to rebase Xen 3.0.5 to new LKML tree before Fedora 7 feature freeze. > kernel > ------- > So options CONFIG_PPC_MULTIPLATFORM (Jimi you called it > CONFIG_PPC_GENERIC) is enabled. Which will allow for kernel integration. > > The Fedora PPC kernel maintainer is David Woodhouse > <dwmw2@infradead.org> > > He is more then happy to take in need changes if we can get them in and > they don't break anything. David maintains the PPC *baremetal* kernels - the Xen kernels are maintained separately by the Fedora Xen team - in particular Juan Quintela[1] who leads the effort to forward port trees from xen-unstable onto the more recent LKML trees that are distributed in Fedora. You'll have to sync up with Juan to figure out feasibility of getting PPC support into his kernel-xen trees. Regards, Dan. [1] Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com> -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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