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

« on: May 11, 2026, 01:14:27 pm »

Power 12 will happen because Power's chief engineer, William Starke, spoke about it directly. He did an interview not long ago announcing Power 11 and that immediately after that, there will be a move to Power 12, which will also have a new production process. The point is that if it doesn't return to being completely open, unfortunately, we won't have a sequel to Power 9...

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] Upstreaming PPC64 optmisation patch for Google SKIA library

« on: May 11, 2026, 01:03:54 pm »

Unfortunately, Google doesn't offer any support for ppc64. I don't know if they're still afraid of us, but the fact remains that this is the situation. But as for the implementation, since Tim is following and developing Chormium ppc64, can't he do it himself in the version he regularly updates? Or maybe he already will...

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Debian 13 Trixie is out!

« on: May 10, 2026, 03:48:35 pm »

After a while, I finally figured out where the problems with the new Debian kernels were. I'm currently using the new 7.0.5, which I compiled and installed myself. The problem was that since I was still using X11 by default, whenever I tried to use a recent kernel, it wouldn't boot. I set Wayland by default, and it booted fine. I tried booting Trixie's current 6.12.86, but that didn't work either, and then I noticed it has 4K pages, which is probably why it's not working. In any case, I've now started using custom kernels on Debian again; I even compiled and installed a 7.0.3 on Ubuntu.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [BUG] Linux 7.0-rc1

« on: March 29, 2026, 08:45:24 am »

Great, I'd like to try compiling and installing it on Debian as soon as the stable one is released, which hasn't worked since version 6.2 or later... I'd also like to see how RDNA 4 support is going because I'd like to upgrade to a Radeon Pro, but unfortunately, it seems like no one knows anything about it yet...

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: The new 9070 XT seems like a really interesting card for Blackbird owners.

« on: March 28, 2026, 04:50:29 pm »

Any news on where we're at to use RDNA4 on Power? I think it'll take the usual trifecta: appropriate firmware, updated drivers, and, of course, a recent kernel...

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: Queensland Health, IBM's 12 year ban and the future of POWER

« on: March 15, 2026, 09:01:20 am »

Daniel, I'm not sure what this article means exactly. If we're talking about Power, IBM has continued to support it for years and continues to invest a lot of money, which obviously means it's profitable. Power 11 was launched in the summer of last year, from what I understand, but it's still unclear whether it's completely open source or still has binary firmware. We know that ultimately it only depends on the Raptor firmware, whether or not they can design a new system... But as for its overall presence, I think there's no doubt about it.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Linux 6.18

« on: February 06, 2026, 06:39:38 am »

I just compiled version 6.18.2 for Ubuntu a few days ago, and it works fine on Power. On Debian, however, it still doesn't work. Ubuntu must have made some updates to fix the problem. I remember it didn't work on Ubuntu either until recently. I need to figure out if it's a firmware issue, a Mesa driver issue, or something else. I'm looking into it with Gemini.

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

« on: January 13, 2026, 04:23:29 pm »

Sorry guys, I've noticed that since some kernel releases, there are compilation issues when building a custom kernel. Every time I try to do so, it stops at a certain point and gives me this error:
Makefile:2025: .] error 2
debian/rules:7: build-arch error2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary subprocess returned exit status 2
makefile:1671: bindeb-pkg error 2
I've reported the most important things it says, but in any case, it still won't compile. I've tried both Debian and Ubuntu, which is a Debian derivative. I've even tried a server version of Debian 12, but nothing. There must be some file that needs to be modified with these new kernels that have changed something. Any idea what's going on?

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Talos II / Re: Ubuntu 20.04 5.4.0-167: kexec load failed

« on: November 17, 2025, 07:26:55 am »

I currently also use Ubuntu sometimes as an alternative to Debian, I use both, I must say that 24.04 works well and even runs with its Kernel 6.8.0.X, but I use a Radeon 5700 XT as a graphics card which apparently doesn't work with the new Kernels on Debian 12 and 13 which I still can't use today and I have to use the long-life version 6.1.X...

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Debian 13 Trixie is out!

« on: October 20, 2025, 05:45:34 am »

The strange thing is that on Ubuntu, for example, kernels older than 6.2 work, using version 6.8 and doing just fine, so I don't understand why Debian continues to have problems after kernel version 6.2. If I try to compile and install the latest kernel on Debian 11, everything works fine, but if I try Debian 12 or later, it no longer works when switching from AST to Radeon 5700 XT. I'd like to know if people like Daniel Pocock, for example, are aware of this problem and could offer me a solution...

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

« on: October 19, 2025, 04:35:52 pm »

Yes, you're right. After looking at other articles, I realized that they are part of the Volta 100 support that Nvidia gave to Power machines, which then ended in 2024. In any case, I read that from Kernel 6.16 onwards, there should be drivers already available for the latest RTX 50XX cards, but I'll have to see if we can also use them on Power...

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

« on: October 19, 2025, 08:01:31 am »

Guys, I started this new thread because I'd like to understand where we actually are with Nvidia GPUs, especially the RTX 50XX. I read on a site that you can download specific drivers for our architecture, so I obviously wondered if there might be support for actually using the new RTX 50XX. Do you know anything concrete about this situation? Do you know if it's possible to actually use an Nvidia GPU? The example site I found in the meantime is this: https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/nvidia-driver/redist/nvidia_driver/linux-ppc64le/

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] IBM offers ppc64le/s390x GitHub Actions CI/CD workers for OSS projects

« on: October 18, 2025, 12:47:42 pm »

Yes, very interesting, we hope the developers respond to this opportunity!

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Debian 13 Trixie is out!

« on: October 18, 2025, 12:43:58 pm »

Thanks for your report, I just updated to Trixie recently too. The system works well, but unfortunately the problem I had on Bookworm regarding the kernels after version 6.1.X persists. From version 6.2 onwards, something must have changed in the Radeon 5700 drivers and it hasn't been resolved, so I can no longer use the new kernels on Debian. Even the current version of Trixie, 6.12.48, doesn't work the same way as all the others from 6.2.X onwards. The driver must have broken and hasn't been updated since the 5700 is now an old card... I think I'll have to change my graphics card in the future if I want to use the new kernels, but for the Radeon 4 I think it's still early on Power, I'll have to wait for support to arrive and stabilize...

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: The new 9070 XT seems like a really interesting card for Blackbird owners.

« on: October 12, 2025, 02:59:19 pm »

Prices seem to be dropping, today the 9070XT are available at good prices, it would be interesting to see what the current state of support is on Power...