[CentOS-devel] c7-ppc64 (big endian) progress

Wed Jul 29 11:29:23 UTC 2015
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

On 29/07/15 11:02, Timo Schöler wrote:
> Is there a possibility to keep older hardware supported as well, maybe
> with some kind of "CentOS plus Kernel"?
> 
> RHEL 7 dropped support for Power6 and Power5, while Fedora still runs
> on them. Pretty decent hardware.

Atleast the noarch rpms should be ok :) for the binary ones, I think we
might need to rebuild a bunch ( if not all ? ), down to the mtune and
optimisation flags being set in the rpm macros.

Something to trial and see how it goes, I dont think it would be a huge
overhead once the initial bootstrap is done.

Regards,


-- 
Karanbir Singh
+44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh
GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc