Messages

1

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

« on: January 29, 2026, 08:50:12 am »

On Alpine Linux it's available on ppc64le. On ArchPOWER it's even available on ppc/ppc64.
https://github.com/kth5/archpower/blob/master/games/dhewm3/PKGBUILD

When I have time, I'll try it on Chimera Linux.

2

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

« on: December 06, 2025, 07:37:42 am »

3 December: New committer: Timothy Pearson (src)

FreeBSD News Flash

3

Firmware / Re: Troubleshooting sshd openbmc host via port 2200 after upgrading to 2.0

« on: December 02, 2025, 02:09:51 pm »

Did the latest system package v2.10 (Blackbird) from 02-15-2024 actually fix the issue?

4

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

« on: November 28, 2025, 05:23:02 pm »

Well, RabtorCS offered to help. So it would be very surprising if they would drop ppc64le.

5

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

« on: November 27, 2025, 08:21:09 am »

tle, if you write to the mailing list, please also mention that there will soon be a new ppc64 (e5500) motherboard. Hopefully it will be affordable. https://mirari.vitasys.nl/

6

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

« on: November 26, 2025, 06:57:57 pm »

You only have to click on the list name:
https://lists.freebsd.org/subscription/freebsd-arch

7

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

« on: November 05, 2025, 09:36:46 pm »

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

8

GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: Ability to use Nvidia RTX 50XX on Power

« on: October 19, 2025, 01:17:33 pm »

These nVidia drivers are only suitable for computation.
They do not provide any graphics output. Furthermore, they are outdated.

9

Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 43 Beta - please help the community test this release

« on: September 27, 2025, 01:51:15 pm »

At least tpearson seems to have a soft spot for BSD. He is quite active on ravynOS FreeBSD

10

Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] Adding support for POWER SIMD in ispc lib

« on: September 26, 2025, 12:00:57 pm »

... More SIMD engines are being integrated, and as a hint IBM Z is next! The plan is to have *ALL* SIMD intrinsics for every platform supported.

Linkedin

Hopefully that includes the PPC970 and PA6T-1682M.

11

Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] Is there any tool to detect the logic that might be impacted by endianess?

« on: September 26, 2025, 08:25:00 am »

I guess, this: https://github.com/RobertBeckebans/RBDOOM-3-BFG/pull/1047

You was mentioned there, too ;-)

12

Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] Adding support for POWER SIMD in ispc lib

« on: September 23, 2025, 11:38:07 am »

Message from Konstantinos (via IRC #talos-workstation):

normally I don't do marketing, but I think this might interest people interested in VSX programming, we have just released a VSCode extension that integrates SIMD.info, SIMD.ai (optional) into a VSCode extension, check code.simd.ai
Codium free alternative pending approval of my account to the eclipse foundation

13

Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] An attempt to package chromium for ppc64le in the official Fedora DNF repo

« on: September 17, 2025, 02:26:11 pm »

This is the repo were Raptor is working on:
https://salsa.debian.org/chromium-team/chromium

14

General CPU Discussion / Re: Buying used hardware: boards, CPUs, fan assemblies

« on: September 01, 2025, 12:00:54 pm »

@lnikkila: Where are you located?
If I sell my Blackbird, it will only be the entire box. However, only quad-core.

15

Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Linux 6.16

« on: July 30, 2025, 08:54:17 pm »

Works since 6.7: https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/POWER9_Hardware_Compatibility_List/PCIe_Devices#AMD