From 9cdd39f97f8afe148232ccd2dcd771cc6bb56f22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Petr Bokoc Date: Nov 27 2018 20:13:17 +0000 Subject: 199 - Discontinue PPC64 --- diff --git a/modules/release-notes/pages/sysadmin/Distribution.adoc b/modules/release-notes/pages/sysadmin/Distribution.adoc index 46341a8..19b4438 100644 --- a/modules/release-notes/pages/sysadmin/Distribution.adoc +++ b/modules/release-notes/pages/sysadmin/Distribution.adoc @@ -28,3 +28,9 @@ This was generally a good thing, however in some cases using swap on ARM can cau Fedora 29 enables ZRAM in order to mitigate this and enable more memory on ARM single-board computers (SBCs) by compressing a part of the RAM and using it as a swap space. This provides better performance and reliability on such devices, which in turn provides better user experience. ZRAM is enabled on all ARM images by default. + +== Discontinue PPC64 + +Fedora 29 drops support for big endian IBM POWER (`ppc64`) systems. +This change comes after big-endian ppc64 systems have been supported in a "maintenance only" mode for several years, and is largely caused by upstream focus on little endian `ppc64le`. +For more detailed justification behind this change, see the link:++https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/ppc@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/D6G5RQUTRYGZ5Y4XIPMADMUSH2PTZDO4/++[mailing list announcement].