PPC/PPC64 disabled in Koji for dist-f13

Dan Horák dan at danny.cz
Thu Oct 1 09:37:35 UTC 2009


Richard W.M. Jones píše v Čt 01. 10. 2009 v 10:29 +0100: 
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 07:02:08PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Jeff Garzik <jgarzik at pobox.com> writes:
> > > The lack of big endian builds by default is a notable loss, and will 
> > > lead to a decline in software quality.
> > > I think this is a net-negative for Fedora.
> > 
> > I think the same, but it's getting harder to find PPC machines.
> 
> This was my problem too with PPC builds - it's hard to get time on a
> PPC/PPC64 machine to fix the problems.
> 
> > Is there another big-endian platform that is on the upswing?
> 
> Is ARM big endian?

The chips can usually do both endians, but Fedora/ARM is built as little
endian, because the targeted HW is little endian.


Dan





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