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Linux kernel packages 5.9.6 for Debian buster with 4k page size available
pocock:
I put the mesa packages into the build server, it takes time to build but I think they'll be ready tomorrow or Tuesday.
For Fedora: can you please ask on the fedora-devel list if anybody in their kernel team can copy what I did here to simultaneously build both 64k and 4k flavours of the kernel for Debian?
On the Debian system, you can check which kernels are installed like this (notice I begin by checking which kernel is active):
--- Code: ---$ uname -a
Linux ws3 4.19.0-10-powerpc64le-4k #1 SMP Debian 4.19.132-2 (2020-09-16) ppc64le GNU/Linux
$ dpkg -l | grep linux-image
ii linux-image-4.19.0-10-powerpc64le-4k 4.19.132-2 ppc64el Linux 4.19 for Little-endian 64-bit PowerPC (4k page size)
--- End code ---
You can remove a kernel package from the system like this but please don't try to remove the kernel that is currently active, you need to reboot into a different kernel before you run the command:
--- Code: ---$ sudo dpkg --purge linux-image-4.19.0-10-powerpc64le-4k
--- End code ---
--- Quote from: MauryG5 on January 02, 2021, 02:45:06 pm ---I'm not a developer like you unfortunately ...
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If you play with this platform for long enough you will be a developer too.
MauryG5:
Ok thanks, for mesa I will wait for you to finish the job, for the Kernel I know well that I have to keep active one that works of course, currently only 4.19 is running and I certainly do not touch that otherwise I can no longer do anything. I just want to remove the 64k version of 5.9 which doesn't work as you know so no use keeping it installed. I'll try to ask the kernel team if they can do what you tell me ... Thanks for everything
pocock:
Do you want me to provide you with a 4k version of the 4.19 kernel? That is what I am currently running myself, I have the RX 580 GPU so I don't need the 5.x series kernels yet.
Before I give you a command to remove the 5.9 (64k) kernel, can you please show me the output of this command:
--- Code: ---$ dpkg -l | grep linux-image
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The mesa package is now ready, this is how you install it, notice you have to add an additional APT source and use the update command before dist-upgrade:
--- Code: ---$ sudo -i
# cat >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debify.list << EOF
deb http://apt.debify.org/debify debify-buster-backports-mesa main contrib non-free
EOF
# exit
$ sudo apt update
Get:12 http://apt.debify.org/debify debify-buster-backports/main ppc64el Packages [69.4 kB]
27 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
$ sudo apt -d dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libegl-dev libgl-dev libgles-dev libglx-dev libopengl-dev
The following packages will be upgraded:
libegl-mesa0 libegl1 libegl1-mesa libegl1-mesa-dev libgbm-dev libgbm1 libgl1 libgl1-mesa-dev libgl1-mesa-dri libglapi-mesa libgles1 libgles2
libgles2-mesa-dev libglvnd-core-dev libglvnd-dev libglvnd0 libglx-mesa0 libglx0 libopengl0 mesa-common-dev mesa-va-drivers mesa-vdpau-drivers
22 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 15.0 MB of archives.
After this operation, 92.2 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
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MauryG5:
Hi Pocock, I followed your last instructions, I installed the mesa graphics libraries in version 20, I rebooted with Kernel 5.9 with 4k format but unfortunately the problem remains ... I still think that there is a conflict between the Kernel files from version 5.7 onwards and the Navi 10 drivers ... It is not the fault of the page format or at least it is not the only problem ... On the other hand I am noticing that Debian is really behind on everything, its software too old compared to 'current, I don't think I will keep it for long at this point ... Another anomalous thing it does is while it loads the operating system, it resets the GPU and it doesn't seem so normal to me, Fedora doesn't do any of this when starts the GPU ... I send you the output of the command for the Kernel, what I want to eliminate in the meantime is the 64k one ...
pocock:
Can you please share the output of this command too:
--- Code: ---$ dpkg -l | grep firmware-
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Your system might have an old firmware package. You can download firmware packages directly from the Debian servers, for example, using the links here to find the *.deb files
Did you also try to disable Wayland in your gdm config to see if that makes it work?
To remove the 5.9 kernel with 64k page size:
--- Code: ---$ sudo dpkg --purge linux-image-5.9.0-0.bpo.2-powerpc64le linux-image-powerpc64le
--- End code ---
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