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Operating Systems and Porting / [NEWS] Fedora 39 is here!

« on: November 07, 2023, 05:17:02 pm »

Ref: https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-39/

It is probably one of the best distro for ppc64le as of 2023

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Blackbird / Need help with troubleshooting failed to boot issue

« on: November 06, 2023, 09:49:54 pm »

I posted a video outlining the issue I have with my blackbird at https://youtu.be/8r1HVoI3_8g?si=NhNTnHAdR-HJLJit

TL;DR; 2 days ago my old PSU died. So I replaced it with a new PSU
and now my motherboard refuse to power up.

Any help is greatly appreciated

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: Announcement from Raptor / Solid Silicon Corp

« on: October 22, 2023, 11:56:44 pm »

Sorry I was wrong. I misread the announcement. If it is PowerISA 3.1 then it is likely POWER10-compatible..

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: Announcement from Raptor / Solid Silicon Corp

« on: October 22, 2023, 06:58:52 pm »

S1 is now confirmed a POWER9. There are so many quirks with the way Raptor motherboard arranges components. Notably the PCIe slots leaves no room to install big GPU card.

Here are my wishlist for S1-based Raptor (if they are to use the same name):

* Hibernation
* built-in NVMe slot for host OS
* 4 USB ports: 2x USB type C and 2x USB type A
* 1 2.5GbE ethernet port
* Another PCIex4 slot

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / POWER11 on the horizon?

« on: October 19, 2023, 05:43:15 pm »

According to the article on Phoronix (ref: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-PowerPC-Future-POWER11) it's seems to me the bunch of PowerPC-future patches could be that of next revision of PowerISA and likely that of POWER11.

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Applications and Porting / Re: The core OCaml system now supports PPC64 ELF ABI V2

« on: October 17, 2023, 03:24:27 pm »

Such a great news

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] The rust-ring library has finally got ppc64le build!!

« on: October 08, 2023, 07:39:10 pm »

Version 0.17.2 is out! With PPC64LE support! https://github.com/briansmith/ring/commit/f6d9efd5b3252c2911ab561670e4dc4c1c2db0da

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Firmware / Re: Compile firmware with upstream codes

« on: October 06, 2023, 07:10:35 am »

The blackbird firmware has been bumped to run linux kernel 5.10.197

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General CPU Discussion / Re: Power10 announcement from Raptor soon?

« on: October 03, 2023, 09:28:17 am »

I am pretty stoked to hear of the great news. I'd love to see:

* PCIe 5 support
* NVMe built-in slots
* at least 2 USB C ports
* Power Management (proper Hibernation)

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] Quake 3 source port with Vulkan renderer (vkQuake3)

« on: October 02, 2023, 05:15:13 pm »

all of the engines currently still use an interpreter for QVM (which means really bad performance, noticeable in the mod CPMA), quake3e plans on having native support for ppc64le eventually.

Could you please point me to the conversation about native support for ppc64le?

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] The rust-ring library has finally got ppc64le build!!

« on: October 01, 2023, 10:34:58 pm »

Brian's created a new ticket asking if ppc64le/s390x CI could be moved elsewhere as it's taken so much time.

Feel free to chime in your opinion at https://github.com/briansmith/ring/issues/1678

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Applications and Porting / [DEV] The rust-ring library has finally got ppc64le build!!

« on: October 01, 2023, 05:17:15 am »

The PR 3 years in the making has finally got merged into the main trunk!

Ref: https://github.com/briansmith/ring/pull/1057

The ring library is widely used by many rust-based projects. Having the upstream support ppc64le is a major milestone! I cannot wait to get DenoJS to support ppc64le

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General Discussion / Re: Samsung PRO 980 1TB NVMe is working flawlessly

« on: September 23, 2023, 09:47:10 am »

Looking at the history of kernel performance changes in Fedora 37, I get the impression that no one does performance testing before releasing a kernel. The variability is high. It's a shame that Fedora developers don't see this.

SSD-Samsung-980-Pro-History-2023-09-20.png

ppc64le has always been treated as 2nd class citizen mainly due to hardware availability. I am wondering the performance regression also impact the x86_64?

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 39 Beta

« on: September 21, 2023, 06:34:34 am »

All the recent announcements about X11 make me more worried about Fedora 40.

I do not think it would be the deal breaker because XWayland is still supported

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 39 Beta

« on: September 21, 2023, 06:33:46 am »

It has actually happened (but in bug form)

GDM would crash if I use disable WaylandMode and GNOME (XOrg) also crashes for me

Bug reported at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2239055