#9279 Workstation image fails for ppc64le due missing bcm283x-firmware
Closed: Fixed 4 years ago by sharkcz. Opened 4 years ago by sharkcz.

The Workstation image fails to compose for ppc64le, because the bcm283x-firmware package is missing (see eg. https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=41924207). bcm283x-firmware is RPi specific (so armv7, aarch64 only), if I see right. The images are configured in https://pagure.io/pungi-fedora/blob/master/f/fedora.conf#_437

bcm283x-firmware comes from https://pagure.io/fedora-kickstarts/blob/master/f/fedora-disk-base.ks#_46, the disk-base kickstart is then included by fedora-disk-workstation.

So the questions are
- is the Workstation image supposed to be available on ppc64le (or beyond armv7/aarch64 in general)? I mean, isn't its use case specific to "arm"?
- what can be done to make bcm283x-firmware "arm specific" in the disk-base kickstart?

CC @pbrobinson @pwhalen


In my opinion we can drop ppc64le from the config, I see very little uses cases for it.

I don't know why PPC is suddenly attempting pulling this in, it never use to and the package hasn't changed in some time. It's arch specific.

It was added as part of creation of workstation live media for ppc64le - https://pagure.io/pungi-fedora/c/597cc0d36592437deb371c1749fdcaa343cd92ee

If its not used, then we can take it to FESCo and remove it.

I would say it never worked for the disk image, so I would just disable it again. I don't it's worth spending time on making the disk image truly multi-arch (from armv7, aarch64).

Metadata Update from @sharkcz:
- Issue close_status updated to: Fixed
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

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