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Applications and Porting / Re: How to build Barony Game

« on: November 20, 2024, 03:41:20 pm »

Some progress has been made with OpenAL. OpenAL patches are buildable through https://github.com/damiencarol/Barony/tree/openal_refresh

The build process has changed a bit since starting this thread.

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apt install libgl1-mesa-dev libsdl2-dev libsdl2-image-dev libsdl2-net-dev libsdl2-ttf-dev libphysfs-dev rapidjson-dev libglut-dev libopenal-dev libvorbis-dev

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cmake .. -DFMOD_ENABLED=OFF -DOPENAL_ENABLED=1

make -j 4
Copy game assets books, data, fonts, images, items, maps, models, music, sound, themes into the directory from which you will be launching the barony executable.

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Blackbird / IPL cycle failure

« on: October 22, 2024, 01:03:08 pm »

I have recently been unable to boot one of my Blackbirds (Rev 1.02). This thread will serve as notes for my troubleshoot.

Problem: The board BMC starts when mains power is available and the bottom left LED (D7000) flashes rapidly for 2-3 seconds before entering into a slower pulse indicating BMC bringup. However, upon starting chassis power, the board immediately restarts back to BMC bringup. System fans just barely begin to turn before it resets like this.

I can log into the BMC without issue and it reports (possibly old) critical failures:

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HIGH Error: xyz.openbmc.project.Common.Error.InternalFailure Aug 27, 2022 5:24:36 AM
HIGH Error: open_power.Host.Boot.Error.Checkstop Aug 27, 2022 4:41:00 AM
HIGH Error: open_power.Host.Error.MaintenanceProcecure Aug 27, 2022 4:40:47 AM
HIGH Error: open_power.Host.Error.Event Aug 27, 2022 4:40:46 AM

I say possibly because these errors are old and have been in the log since before this boot issue manifested itself.

Troubleshoot:

1) Re-seat all components, cables
Reseated RAM, CPU, fan connectors, power connectors and tested with PCI devices and all rear+front I/O disconnected - issue persists

2) Check power supply
Checked power supply health with a tester - PSU is functioning properly
Attempted bootup with a different PSU (also tested functional) - issue persists

3) Reflash PNOR, BMC
-Pending-

This Blackbird board typically only sees occasional use for testing, with the only recent change being that I'd started leaving mains power (behind a UPS) connected 24/7 when it is between usage. It is upsetting to have boards costing north of a thousand USD just randomly quit on me, though I will try my best to recover it. Any input is welcome.

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Firmware / Re: Idenitfy versions of firmwares

« on: October 20, 2024, 06:42:38 pm »

I have always supplied the full path when using scp

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scp /path/to/blackbird-v2.10.pnor root@<BMC address>:/tmp/

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General Hardware Discussion / Re: Libre SOC, uh

« on: October 09, 2024, 07:48:52 pm »

NLnet pulled their funding for LibreSoC earlier this year with a statement vaguely suggesting that the future of LibreSoC wasn't clear. When you explore the project's web page, it becomes abundantly clear as to why.

It really bums me out too that the project was initially started to address the lack of fully free GPUs. Then later shifted focus to a low power generic SoC, and now this. We are badly in need of a "Raptor Computing Systems" of the GPU space.

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Applications and Porting / Lynis audit

« on: October 09, 2024, 07:43:12 pm »

For a long time, I had simply thought there were just regressions in Lynis. But digging further down revealed some test modules have hard coded paths for specific CPU architectures (ARM and x86, the usual). In retrospect, those modules did start failing right around the time I switched to powerpc...

Adding:

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${ROOTDIR}lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/security

to Lynis' include/tests_authentication restores working detection for the presence of password strength checkers. I've gone ahead and opened a request at their git.

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General CPU Discussion / Re: 3U HSF End of Life'd

« on: October 04, 2024, 11:41:45 pm »

The "talk is cheap" thing they've got going is kind of nice, until it's not any more. Maintaining a joyful anticipation for Talos III/Blackbird II/S1 systems with no news whatsoever for more than 11 months (with the announced release date ending in less than two months) is probably not something people are going to do.

Not even on their Txitter? I haven't been able to check ever since the API got closed off for frontends like nitter.

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General CPU Discussion / Re: 3U HSF End of Life'd

« on: October 03, 2024, 12:24:02 am »

I'll admit I'm excited for whatever they're doing with S1, as it is now Q4 2024. But life has taught me not to work up expectations.

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Third Party CPU Discussion / Re: Why haven't we seen boards with Power9 / MicroWatt?

« on: August 28, 2024, 08:31:52 pm »

If RCS sought to develop and sell RISC-V systems, I would have no reservations about buying any. It's not that I have any particular loyalty to PowerPC or anything. It just happened to be the most mature, complete and performant solution available.

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Applications and Porting / Re: How to build Barony Game

« on: August 07, 2024, 12:19:31 pm »

Recent releases appear to have dropped OpenAL audio, requiring audio to be disabled in compile options before Barony can be built successfully.

Which means that recent Barony (with all the fancy lighting improvements) cannot be played on PowerPC linux with audio, until this has been resolved.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Debian security standards, deflecting questions about SSH2 issue

« on: July 05, 2024, 12:28:55 pm »

It looks like I have some evening reading to catch up on.

https://danielpocock.com/integrity-fail-debian-social-contract/

As I age, my perception skews further toward "humans are flawed beings", and no amount of rule making or societal structuring will ever eliminate exploitative behavior. And in software projects, the more humans (flawed beings) are involved, the more exploitative activity will occur. None of this is to excuse such behavior.

I can think of Maone, author behind NoScript, having dubious history but still being a net positive in the world of adblocking and open source software.

Andreas Tille - Can it be inferred that his intentions with his time as project leader are malicious? What kind of negative changes, impacting Debian security, would one anticipate being made during this time?

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Applications and Porting / Re: Porting VR games to the Talos II

« on: June 29, 2024, 10:35:11 am »

Video now available here https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/gaming-on-a-talos-ii-how-i-avoid-using-steam/

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Blackbird / Re: Availability of P9 hardware post-ISA 3.1 HW launch

« on: June 29, 2024, 10:32:43 am »

FWIW, I do not plan to sell my current RCS boards once the new ones are available. They will become relegated to the roles currently filled by some older x86 systems that I have.

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Firmware / Re: Firmware 2.10 for Talos-II and Blackbird available

« on: March 23, 2024, 09:52:03 pm »

what is the linux kernel version of firmware 2.10? Some cards are known to be buggy with old kernel, please refer to https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/POWER9_Hardware_Compatibility_List/PCIe_Devices for compatability

6.6 I think. The new firmware is up and running on my evaluation system but I'm not loading firmwares as r34per is trying to do.

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: Radeon RDNA3 support?

« on: March 23, 2024, 09:45:45 pm »

I've heard the same too, that it's had it since Vega -- but that it needs PSP or ME on the CPU side too to be effective.

Do you know where I might find literature on this? In what way does it attempt to link to the CPU PSP?

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: AMD flirting with open sourcing GPU firmware

« on: March 23, 2024, 09:41:52 pm »

It seems to have fallen through with no change brought about by any of the dialogue.