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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] Doom 3 BFG bad ass game XD

« on: February 08, 2026, 05:36:45 am »

Thanks, that indeed fixes the build issue for me. But I'm still getting the same runtime issue as before - a segfault after loading the first level.

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] Doom 3 BFG bad ass game XD

« on: January 29, 2026, 02:27:04 am »

dhewm3 starts for me to the main menu, but starting actual game crashes after loading the level.

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] Doom 3 BFG bad ass game XD

« on: January 28, 2026, 07:20:37 am »

I built dxc and it seems to be recognized by RBDOOM, but I'm getting a build error:
[ FAIL ] SPIRV builtin/lighting/interactionSM.vs.hlsl {main} {USE_GPU_SKINNING=1 LIGHT_POINT=1 LIGHT_PARALLEL=0 USE_PBR=1 USE_NORMAL_FMT_RGB8=1 USE_SHADOW_ATLAS=1}

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] Proposal to drop PPC64 BE support in the next version of Golang

« on: January 19, 2026, 07:14:02 am »

AFAIK Go already requires at least POWER8 even on big-endian. So even in the current state the binaries won't run on G5.

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] Doom 3 BFG bad ass game XD

« on: January 19, 2026, 07:12:40 am »

It looks like the newest version requires Microsoft's DXC which doesn't seem to be available in Portage and is itself an LLVM fork, so I expect getting it to build might be some work in itself. The last version that doesn't require it is 1.4.0.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: FreeBSD 16 plans to drop support for PPC64.

« on: November 24, 2025, 05:46:28 am »

We'd like to retire powerpc64 and powerpc64le just before the FreeBSD stable/16 branch.

It would be a great disappointment if FreeBSD drop support for PPC64. I find FreeBSD extremely useful for hosting ZFS.

In that case, reply to the mailing list. If no one replies about using FreeBSD on POWER, the conclusion will be that it's unused code ready for removal.
FYI, I already replied. Note that you need to be subscribed to reply.

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] LuaJIT PPC64 support

« on: November 19, 2025, 09:55:33 am »

Hi,

the latest available upstream version v2.1-20250826 has support for both ppc64
and ppc64el allowing luajit to be built successfully on both of these architectures.

Debian PowerPC Mailing List

That quote is really misleading, I thought for a moment that Mike Pall finally merged PPC64 support after like 10 years. But it's just openresty fork, it's had ppc64 and ppc64le support for quite some time already.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: OpenBSD: Talos II / Xorg / amdgpu Radeon RX 580

« on: September 04, 2022, 02:25:20 am »

OpenBSD is big-endian on POWER. amdgpu doesn't support big-endian, you need to use radeon driver, which doesn't support your GPU. If you want to use OpenBSD, you need a different GPU.