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

« on: November 14, 2023, 05:31:53 am »

So they have solved the problem of Gnome's slow speed finally, let's just hope that this time they keep it in the next versions too.  Can't you tell us anything new about Chromium?  We still don't have a valid alternative to Firefox when needed unfortunately... On Debian I have both and they work perfectly because if one of the 2 doesn't work well there's the other and even if it's rare but it can happen...

It's been awhile and lots of patches no longer work out of the box. I was attempting to get chromium build for Fedora 39 but the page did not load correctly and I was so occupied with family and work that I could not find time to get to the bottom of fixing it.

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

« on: November 12, 2023, 09:11:16 pm »

I am impressed with the optimisation of GNOME 45. Animation is no longer sluggish like that of 38. Other programs such as GNOME Calendar starts very quickly.

Highly recommended!

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAME] Minecraft Java Edition (LWJGL being ported)

« on: November 09, 2023, 06:17:18 pm »

GOOOD NEWS folks! https://github.com/LWJGL/lwjgl3/issues/495 is finally closed!

LWJGL3 has officially supported PPC64LE!

What does that even mean? That means it is MUCH MUCH easier to customise the client to run on linux ppc64le.

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Blackbird / Re: Need help with troubleshooting failed to boot issue

« on: November 07, 2023, 08:31:39 pm »

Great thanks. It turns out the new PSU is faulty. I have tried other PSU and they work perfectly.

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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