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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: News?
« on: September 19, 2020, 02:41:48 pm »
The Blackbird shows 'backordered' on the Raptor web page.  Anyone know when it will be available again?

I do not know anything about their manufacturing approach, but it may be the kind of thing that production is awaiting a certain number of orders to be reached before making a run of boards.

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: Raptor/PowerPC Training
« on: September 19, 2020, 02:40:15 pm »
I do not suspect that Raptor is a large enough entity to be able to take on such training. Perhaps maybe just sharing how-to videos. I know I would love some such guidance on upgrading pre 2.0 firmware.

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Applications and Porting / Re: Building software, a bit of a newb question
« on: September 12, 2020, 05:51:50 pm »
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Or just buy a second hard disk.

This didn't even cross my mind, for some reason. Maybe I could even clone my main drive as a sort of snapshot to work on.

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Applications and Porting / Re: Building software, a bit of a newb question
« on: September 12, 2020, 01:39:40 pm »
OBS was a few months back but, I basically followed their build instructions from git. The damage happened after running the install, which needed to setup things outside of /home/ such as desktop shortcuts, binaries, hardlinks etc so it needed to be run as root. I have since reinstalled Debian on my Blackbird system, and unfortunately haven't toyed with compiling software ever since.

apt search obs-studio
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
     yields no results, with only amd64 listed at https://packages.debian.org/buster/obs-studio

I am actually considering getting another Blackbird just so that I can continue learning software compilation without having to worry about blowing away my primary system again.

EDIT: Remembering now, I tried to install it into the /opt directory.

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Applications and Porting / Building software, a bit of a newb question
« on: September 12, 2020, 11:51:39 am »
When compiling programs on Power ISA, does make need to be directed explicitly to build for Power? Does the compiler default to its host architecture?

I am trying to build and run programs which are not available in the ppc64le Debian repos;

  • OBS Studio: blew away my OS install after running a make install (GNOME began behaving unusually and eventually locked up, the system would not boot back up after hard resetting)

    Openspades: I was able to build successfully on an x86 host. I nearly do the same on my Blackbird but am afraid to run the make install with sudo priv due to my above experience with OBS)

Can anyone offer some insight?

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Condor / Condor cancelled
« on: July 31, 2020, 05:48:28 pm »
This is a serious setback. I suppose the Talos II lite already occupies that space to a degree. Hopefully this is the extent of losses before things begin to turn around.

https://www.talospace.com/2020/07/condor-cancelled.html

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Blackbird / Re: Audio Driver
« on: July 24, 2020, 09:20:17 pm »
The sound device is listed as C-Media Electronics, Inc. CM106 Like Sound Device,
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alsa.driver_name = "snd_usb_audio"
I am not really sure how to pull driver information.

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I opened an issue for it at https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/8802

I can still create grainy, slow-to-encode gifs in the meantime.

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I may have touched on some of these in my workarounds thread but there are some programs which I currently cannot use because packages are not available/installable in Debian 10's ppc64le (whereas the same packages are available on amd64):

openshot-qt       (python3-openshot but it is not installable)
mozc    (I did not investigate the cause, but anthy is works instead)
anki      (python3-pyqt5.qtwebengine (> 5.11) but it is not installable)
mupen64plus-qt      (plugin packages are available but the main binary package is not)
dolphin-emu           (data package is available, main package is not)
obs-studio
0ad
openmorrowind

And not ppc specific but; is Xonotic left out of Debian because Nexuiz is maintained in its place?

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Operating Systems and Porting / Petite boot and encrypting /boot
« on: July 04, 2020, 04:45:14 pm »
Can Petite boot work with an encrypted /boot directory? I have seen several methods for setting this up but it looks like they go through GRUB. I may not understand this correctly, but doesn't Petite boot stand in for GRUB, when using Raptor systems?

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Firmware / Updating firmware from the live host: possible?
« on: July 04, 2020, 04:36:43 pm »
I'm still trying to wrap my head around the 1.00 > 2.00 firmware update procedure.

It looks like the files need to be sent from another computer. Can this be done simply by wiring ethernet ports 0 or 1 directly to the BMC ethernet port?

I would rather avoid having to trust another computer in the process, if at all possible.

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General Discussion / Re: The pride of being Power!
« on: July 04, 2020, 04:27:24 pm »
This has me curious now where the Raptor boards are manufactured. It is in the states?

Edit: The boards appear to be produced in Texas according to Phoronix.

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General CPU Discussion / Re: equivalent to a HP Z cooler?
« on: June 04, 2020, 10:09:15 pm »
There's the 2U heatsinks. I use one in a Blackbird. Works well enough but I would only use it for the 4-core.

You have air moving across it in some capacity though? No issues with throttling or anything?

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Could this have had anything to do with why my gif and video work ends up producing rows of vertical artifacts in ffmpeg? It's like the render is there, color-wise, but everything is compressed into these one pixel wide lines.

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You might be interested in the package:
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qemu-system-x86. I'm not sure how one would set it up but I imagine this can be done under qemu/kvm or entirely virt-manager.

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