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Wayland support/port for PPC64el

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MPC7500:
You could choose Wayland on the login screen. If you have auto-login, logout, choose Wayland, login.

MauryG5:
Even on Ubuntu now you can choose whether to start with wayland, just do it at the time of login .. Too bad that nothing works, everything crashes and you have to restart manually unfortunately ... I don't know if it depends on the 4k / 64k pages or other  ...

cchinicz:

--- Quote from: MPC7500 on December 31, 2020, 07:41:01 pm ---You could choose Wayland on the login screen. If you have auto-login, logout, choose Wayland, login.

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As MauryG5 wrote, if I login KDE Wayland I get a black screen and have to restart the machine the hard way (push button).

It seems Wayland is not supported with Fedora 33 / Kernel kernel-5.9.16-200.fc33. I do not have a graphical card (use the standard HDMI that comes out of the OpenBMC), so no driver issue I suppose.

MauryG5:
I also confirm the use of the Blackbird video, up to Kernel 5.4 on Ubuntu there is no support for the Radeon 5700 from what I know.  But more generally I remember that support for Navi 10 was introduced from Kernel 5.6 onwards so with 5.4 we still have integrated video.  I tried to use Ubuntu 20.10 with Kernel 5.8 but unfortunately also in this case as on Debian and as on Fedora, starting the operating system, everything crashes and you have to restart the whole computer ... Returning to Wayland, I confirm that it does not even work  with video integrated to the graphics card, it only works under Xorg ...

MPC7500:
This is no surprise, since all distributions use, more or less, the same kernel.
And Kernel 5.4 needs the Navi patches.


--- Quote from: cchinicz on January 04, 2021, 06:39:44 am ---As MauryG5 wrote, if I login KDE Wayland I get a black screen and have to restart the machine the hard way (push button).

It seems Wayland is not supported with Fedora 33 / Kernel kernel-5.9.16-200.fc33. I do not have a graphical card (use the standard HDMI that comes out of the OpenBMC), so no driver issue I suppose.

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--- Quote ---Running Wayland on the Blackbird was yet again an unmitigated disaster and I have not seen any information to suggest this has changed for simple framebuffers in general (so if you're a straight BMC-only system as mine is, fuggedaboutit). On the T2, Wayland is still not as snappy as Xorg, but performance was not massively different and window theming and decorations seem more consistent.
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