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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Bootstrapping native Void Linux (ppc64le) on Talos II

« on: June 14, 2026, 03:07:18 pm »

I've finished restoring a minimal version of Void Linux on ppc64 with DE E25/X11: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/iok4f2j0l2mxfxbhgxpee/Void-Linux-Talos2-ppc64le-03-Minimal-with-E25.jpg?rlkey=o31u971una54ajj95t252kvy4&st=n5pu0fxt&dl=0

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Bootstrapping native Void Linux (ppc64le) on Talos II

« on: June 14, 2026, 01:12:23 am »

I’ve adopted a different build philosophy: I don’t want to forcefully reduce dependencies, but rather compile as much as possible. I only reduce dependencies when I have to. Additionally, I have testing software that checks a large number of different Lua versions and dialects.


I build the Enlightenment environment directly from the source code in the project repository. Version 0.27.0 has slightly fewer features.

I've already built 1,877 packages ;-)

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Bootstrapping native Void Linux (ppc64le) on Talos II

« on: June 13, 2026, 05:45:25 pm »

For fastfetch: LuaJIT is not supported. Lua support is optional.

In that case, I'll have to remove the dependency, but it'll be hard to track down because it's not a direct dependency.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Bootstrapping native Void Linux (ppc64le) on Talos II

« on: June 13, 2026, 05:42:50 pm »

I made an almost identical fix in fill_array_from_sys, but there's still a memory leak in that function.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Bootstrapping native Void Linux (ppc64le) on Talos II

« on: June 13, 2026, 03:01:41 pm »

Update from the development front on Void Linux on ppc64le:

- I built cpufetch and fastfetch packages;

- The first one required some minor code refactoring for PPC—unused variables, memory leaks—I did only what was necessary to ensure it compiled without errors;

- In the second package, I ran into massive dependencies; I had to build 608 packages, including LuaJIT;

- For LuaJIT, I used sources from OpenResty; they compile, but unfortunately the JIT doesn’t work.

Here’s a screenshot of how it ultimately looks: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rh5n4a9vx7i47yoy0rueh/Void-Linux-Talos2-ppc64le-fast-cpu-fetch.png?rlkey=4bcs27d2gqtc9a7wf7wd12lfe&st=lqtizzog&dl=0

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Bootstrapping native Void Linux (ppc64le) on Talos II

« on: May 26, 2026, 12:46:47 am »

“Works” might be a bit of an overstatement. I'm starting with a minimal installation. I'm currently putting together a more comprehensive set of packages to perform a full installation and migrate package building from Fedora 42 to Void Linux. Unfortunately, I need to expand my infrastructure with a second processor because the entire build process takes a while on a single C18.

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Operating Systems and Porting / [NEWS] Bootstrapping native Void Linux (ppc64le) on Talos II

« on: May 24, 2026, 04:32:52 pm »

Hi everyone,

    I just wanted to share a recent personal milestone. After a few days of intensive compiling and debugging, I’ve successfully bootstrapped a complete, native Void Linux base system (almost 1,000 packages) for ppc64le directly on my Talos II.

    I used Void's xbps-src environment to build everything from source. If anyone else is looking to try this, here are a few technical hurdles I ran into and how I bypassed them:

• Kernel 6.18 & pSeries LPAR code: The build initially failed on papr-hvpipe.c. Since our machines run on PowerNV (skiboot) and don't need IBM's PAPR w/ LPAR virtualization overhead, I temporarily patched out the failing code with preprocessor macros. My ultimate goal is to build a leaner kernel with CONFIG_PPC_PSERIES completely disabled.
• x265 compilation errors: The x265 package tripped over AltiVec/VSX hardware optimizations during the 10-bit depth build pass. I had to explicitly disable the altivec option in the package's build template to get it to compile cleanly via standard C++.
• Booting via Petitboot: Instead of fighting with ISO generation scripts designed for x86, I installed the built packages (xbps-install) directly onto an ext4-formatted USB drive via chroot. I wrote a minimal grub.cfg pointing to the native vmlinux and initramfs, and Petitboot flawlessly parsed it and booted the system via kexec on the first try.

    I'm taking a short breather now, but my next step is to configure the network with ConnMan and compile a native, lightweight graphical environment—likely Enlightenment—to keep the system as responsive and bloat-free as possible.

    If anyone is working on a similar Void/OpenPOWER port and needs details on the xbps-src patches, let me know!

Cheers.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 44 Beta is out!

« on: March 18, 2026, 01:55:30 am »

It works very well on this machine, the MoreFine M600. I’ve been using this machine alongside the Talos 2 for over a year, since December 2024. During that time, I’ve experienced two or three instances of amdgpu crashing. I recently bought the latest version of the MoreFine H1, the AMD AI PRO MAX, but FreeBSD doesn’t work on this hardware yet.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 44 Beta is out!

« on: March 15, 2026, 04:15:29 am »

I’ve gone back to my roots and have been using Enlightenment E27.1 for a few months now. Unfortunately, F44B doesn’t include the X11 version of E27.1, and the Wayland version doesn’t work. On my x86_64 workstation, I’ve switched to FreeBSD:

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```                        `        dknoto@mfm600
  ` `.....---.......--.```   -/     -------------
  +o   .--`         /y:`      +.    Host: M600
   yo`:.            :o      `+-     Kernel: FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE
    y/               -/`   -o/      Uptime: 3 days, 12 hours, 31 mins
   .-                  ::/sy+:.     Shell: bash 5.3.9
   /                     `--  /     Display (DELL U4021QW): 3456x1458 @ 1.17x in 40", 60 Hz [External] *
  `:                          :`    Display (HP LP2475w): 1920x1200 @ 1.17x in 26", 60 Hz [External]
  `:                          :`    WM: Enlightenment (X11)
   /                          /     Theme: Breeze-Dark [GTK2], Breeze [GTK3]
   .-                        -.     Icons: breeze-dark [GTK2/3/4]
    --                      -.      Font: Noto Sans (11pt) [GTK2], IBM Plex Sans (13pt, Light) [GTK3], Noto Sans (11pt) [GTK4]
     `:`                  `:`       Cursor: breeze (24px)
       .--             `--.         Terminal: terminology 1.14.0
          .---.....----.            CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS (16) @ 4.00 GHz
                                    GPU: AMD Radeon 780M Graphics
                                    Memory: 50.41 GiB / 63.18 GiB (80%)
                                    Swap: 133.82 MiB / 2.00 GiB (7%)
                                    Disk (/): 127.72 GiB / 645.29 GiB (20%) - zfs
                                    Disk (/zroot): 96.00 KiB / 517.57 GiB (0%) - zfs
                                    Local IP (re0): 192.168.0.57/24
                                    Locale: pl_PL.UTF-8


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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 44 Beta is out!

« on: March 14, 2026, 09:52:14 am »

The geniuses at GNOME have taken anti-ergonomics to the point of absurdity. They’ve turned the simple “double-click” + “middle-click” operation into a sequence of “double-click” + “right-click” + “select copy” + “click” + “right-click” + “select paste.”

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

« on: November 18, 2025, 10:07:29 am »

Hi

I have sad news for fans of diversity on the PPC64 platform. The FreeBSD team plans to discontinue support for PPC64 starting with version 16. Link to the original discussion: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-arch/2025-November/001078.html.

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] Electron support for ppc64le

« on: November 12, 2025, 07:25:23 am »

I wonder if https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux will work?

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

« on: September 28, 2025, 04:21:04 pm »

In the early 1990s, I didn't know what to choose, Linux or FreeBSD. I chose Linux for the reasons you mention. Now the situation is not so clear-cut. Yes, more companies support Linux, but I don't use those companies' products. Everything I use is 100% available in FreeBSD. I've been using FreeBSD on MoreFine M600 for a year now, and I'm happy with this solution.

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

« on: September 27, 2025, 04:25:07 am »

Better is always the enemy of good. I had been using Gnome since 2011, starting with version three. I was very satisfied at the time. Unfortunately, at some point, the creators of Gnome began to abandon quality and good ideas in favor of irrelevant oddities. They didn't fix significant bugs for years. Without plugins from other programmers, the environment became unusable. The final straw was the forced transition from X11 to Wayland. If Wayland were X12 and eliminated the bugs of the old environment with a minimal number of new ones, I wouldn't complain. But for users who rely heavily on X11 features, it's a disaster. After years of development, the Wayland environment is only a source of new problems and total fragmentation with minimal functionality. At the moment, I have already switched to XFCE. And as soon as DRM from FreeBSD works on Talos 2, I think I will abandon Linux.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: FreeBSD 14.3 available on bare metal Raptor Talos II

« on: September 14, 2025, 12:28:34 pm »

I am using FreeBSD 15.x big-endian in a virtual machine (qemu). ZFS works fine for me. Basically, most things work except for graphics. DRM does not work.