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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [GAMES] 3D Pinball Space Cadet

« on: August 22, 2022, 03:29:08 pm »

Yes, plays very well: https://www.talospace.com/2021/10/tonights-game-on-openpower-space-cadet.html

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Firmware / Re: network card to reduce attack surface?

« on: August 19, 2022, 10:15:17 pm »

The BMC question is what Kestrel should ultimately solve.

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: Request for proposals: Who to donate my Blackbird and Power 9 CPU?

« on: August 19, 2022, 10:13:59 pm »

Actually, NetBSD is a really good suggestion. It shouldn't take much to get the port done because they could borrow from FreeBSD and OpenBSD for the sysdep portions and the rest is all on the HAL.

https://www.netbsd.org/contrib/hardware.html

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User Zone / Re: Rough edges and how I work around them (or not)

« on: August 14, 2022, 09:48:11 pm »

I don't think this is an issue with current releases anymore as long as your device is supported for TRIMming.

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: Request for proposals: Who to donate my Blackbird and Power 9 CPU?

« on: August 11, 2022, 06:28:26 pm »

I just want to say I think this is a great cause and very generous. 

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: Which GPU would *you* choose?

« on: August 11, 2022, 05:59:16 pm »

If you're using a 64K page kernel (Fedora, for example), I can attest that the WX7100 works fine with amdgpu. I haven't had a need to try something newer.

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User Zone / Re: Calling for gaming experiences

« on: August 08, 2022, 07:11:57 pm »

I wouldn't imagine any significant problems with connecting to an x86 server from a ppc64le machine, and I'm pretty sure it worked fine back in the day even with big-endian.

Enjoyed Stalker the movie, so I might have to try that when I get a free second.

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User Zone / Re: Void Linux thread

« on: July 31, 2022, 10:15:17 pm »

I use NTP, though I have a local stratum 1 server on the internal network (GPS).

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: News?

« on: July 29, 2022, 12:43:03 pm »

In (some) fairness to IBM, Raptor systems -- despite their cost and their visibility -- are considered the "low end" of the OpenPOWER ecosystem. IBM makes their money on their big institutional partners who don't care much about the things we do (openness, auditability), and it's more important to IBM to give them a new performance shiny to keep them in the sales-and-service fold lest they jump ship for x86. If this was what got them to market quicker, then we lose out. That's just the way the business is.

That said, IBM has also taken a bit of a black eye over Power10 as a result and because Raptor systems *are* so visible, it's harmed their secondary goal to make the architecture more generally relevant again. I think this will be factored into Power11 but there's never any guarantee.

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: AMD GPU at boot

« on: July 29, 2022, 12:39:20 pm »

Interesting numbers. I would expect that figure to improve with software refinement.

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User Zone / Re: Void Linux thread

« on: July 28, 2022, 05:08:25 pm »

Very interesting.

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User Zone / Re: Void Linux thread

« on: July 25, 2022, 03:19:24 pm »

If you're directly wired together, the gateway IP can be 0.0.0.0 because the only other host is your client. I don't think that's your problem. Since you know the MAC address for the Blackbird, I suppose you could forge an arp entry (arp -s).

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Blackbird / Re: Did my Blackbird just die on me?

« on: July 19, 2022, 06:53:11 pm »

Whew!

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: News?

« on: July 15, 2022, 11:23:29 pm »

Excellent! I'll take two Arctic Terns now, Alex.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: suspend, sleep, hibernate and resume?

« on: July 13, 2022, 12:32:20 am »

I've never seen OS support for these modes so far. Whether they're supported in the firmware, I don't know.