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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 32 is released

« on: May 19, 2020, 09:44:31 am »

I've tried out the Fedora 32 Workstation Live USB, sadly it does _not_ work. I've sent Fedora team an email to their mailing list https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/ppc@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/FYTZDTC4BCZDIC7Y7UCUZQ4EDDGBVAGY/

And the response is:

no, there are multiple issues, but the image works fine in a VM. The
problem is that petitboot doesn't fully understand the grub config
(/boot/grub/grub.cfg) used in the Live image, same config does work when
processed by grub in a VM. The solution is to keep only 64-bit
versions/paths as we don't produce 32-bit content for a long time, for
details see https://github.com/weldr/lorax/pull/1017. It means it will
be fixed in F-33.

The workaround is to edit the kernel/initrd paths before booting to
be /ppc/ppc64/{vmlinuz,initrd.img} instead of /ppc/ppc. Or maybe there
is a newer/fixed version of petitboot, so also building a new firmware
image could help.

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Mod Zone / Sun Ultra 45 chassis mod project

« on: May 17, 2020, 10:25:06 pm »

Sun Ultra 45 chassis is one sexy design. The quality that Sun Microsystems put into this chassis is second to none. I was fortunate to buy a used Ultra 45 chassis from an UK eBay seller and get it shipped to Australia for $100 AUD (then the seller updated the shipping cost to $200+). The empty chassis does not come with the proprietary motherboard tray so I have to workaround by drilling 3 small holes for three 1.8cm L-shaped plastic standoffs (sourced from the CPS2 arcade machine - I guess the brass standoffs that are abundant online can be used too). Here is the video of the mother bound mounting

Mount motherboard: https://youtu.be/j3xppDQ_MBk

Next is to ask my friend to laser cut me an I/O shield plate from a thin metal sheet.

I will update this space as I progress.

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Mod Zone / Re: Convert GPU PCI-E X16 to X8

« on: May 17, 2020, 10:19:07 pm »

Yes I am fully aware. My GPU is last gen and could not take full bandwidth of PCI-E 3.0 X8

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Mod Zone / Re: Convert GPU PCI-E X16 to X8

« on: May 17, 2020, 08:44:19 am »

I finally decide to convert the X8 slot to open-ended.

Here is my YouTube https://youtu.be/93yEag-aryk

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Operating Systems and Porting / Wine developer starts merging Timothy's sets of patches for ppc64le

« on: May 11, 2020, 09:55:46 pm »

Good to now that Wine developer André Hentschel has started merging patches by Raptor Engineering's Timothy Pearson (aka @madscientist159). See André's mail for more details https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2020-April/165261.html.

Fingercross that version 5.9 or 6.0 would fully support ppc64le

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 32 is released

« on: May 11, 2020, 05:48:40 am »

Hi, sorry what do you mean to install Fedora on a VM? What exactly is it? I'm not a Linux expert ...

I was implying about installing Fedora virtual machine with libvirt/kvm/qemu. You can check out virt-manager if you are after an intuitive GUI

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Blackbird / Re: Max resolution of the HDMI (motherborad)

« on: May 11, 2020, 02:50:51 am »

I assume you are using the built-in AST2500 graphic card. What's the Xorg driver you are using?

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Firefox Status

« on: May 11, 2020, 02:34:01 am »

Firefox 76 is already out.

@ClassicHasClass: Is your JIT patch re-based yet?

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 32 is released

« on: May 11, 2020, 02:33:10 am »

I tried to reinstall all Fedora, until now the update I had done on a secondary Hardisk and then I did the update on this to do all the tests, I put the Kernel 5.4.0.2 but the dnfDragora problem does not change, always the same! I honestly don't understand what the hell it has, I haven't touched anything from 31 to 32 and yet it doesn't work anymore! No button is available apart from TERMINA and nothing appears in the list ...! I can't understand why it works for you and not for me, is there any option to touch on Fedora 32 that I don't know? I'm not really understanding anything ...!

I do not know for sure. I highly recommend you try to install Fedora 32 under a VM (libvirt/qemu/kvm) and see if dnfDragora works with stock configuration.

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Applications and Porting / [DEV] NGINX's kubernetes nginx-ingress controller

« on: May 11, 2020, 12:11:11 am »

I've lodged a new Github issue with suggestion for ppc64le support at https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/issues/944

For the time-being, if you are attempting to deploy this controller, you could build that manually OR grabbing my pre-build images from docker.io/powerpc64el/nginx-ingress

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Blackbird / Re: Support for POWER9 22core?

« on: May 09, 2020, 01:13:34 am »

The wiki page is continuing to get better , if you are interested in learning more about Sforza IBM POWER9, check out the wikipage https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Sforza

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Applications and Porting / Re: [APP] Discourse now runs on Linux ppc64le

« on: May 08, 2020, 10:26:19 am »

The good news is rubyjs/libv8 gem project is now kinda back on track. Their Travis CI build is fixed and I helped them bump V8 to 7.3.495.

I am trying to get this PR green on Travis https://github.com/rubyjs/libv8/pull/296, this would bring "first-class" support for ppc64le

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Applications and Porting / Re: [NEWS] non-x86_64/aarch64 JSVALUE64 platforms affected WebKitGTK

« on: May 08, 2020, 10:21:23 am »

Great. Luckily, I'm still on F31.

I was thinking of going back to F31. There are so many packages that aren't playing nice with GCC10

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Applications and Porting / [DEV] Kubernetes DEB packages for Debian 10

« on: May 08, 2020, 09:01:15 am »

Thanks to the K8S's kubepkg tooling, I manage to build DEB packages on Debian 10. You could download them at https://github.com/runlevel5/kubernetes-packages

I am hopeful that K8S project would release official DEB packages in the near future so users do not have to go through many hoops to build their own packages.

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Applications and Porting / [NEWS] non-x86_64/aarch64 JSVALUE64 platforms affected WebKitGTK (Resolved)

« on: May 07, 2020, 08:56:29 pm »

Thanks to Daniel Kolesa. The regression in JSCore of WebKit GTK which has marred the functionality of GNOME 3.36 is finally resolved. This issue is a blocker for GNOME 3.36 adoption on PowerPC64 platforms.

I found out about this issue during the GNOME 3.37 cycle but unable to pin point the commit that caused the issue. Fortunately, Daniel jumped in to save the day.

I am expecting the downstream Fedora 32 would publish new version of webkit2gtk3 RPM in a day or two.

Ref: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210685#c23