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Applications and Porting / Re: How to build Barony Game

« on: December 22, 2021, 03:49:43 pm »

I would first need to buy a copy for the assets. Just a quick pass through my library also reminds me I have Eldritch which is in the same genre. Maybe I'd do that one first.

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: News?

« on: December 10, 2021, 11:03:44 pm »

Interview with T Pearson from: https://player.fireside.fm/v2/ak5KcU-1+x6U6CntI/twitter. They go in to detail on some things like Power 10's non-free components. It's over an hour but worth a listen.

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: AMD rendering issues with Debian Bullseye

« on: December 02, 2021, 02:41:28 pm »

After taking another shot at this, I have found that it boots okay to a Void linux live USB environment. I haven't tried with a dedicated GPU since I'm not sure if Void has amd gpu firmware packages.

Debian does not have live environments for any power architectures so I'm still SOL on with Debian. I thought maybe if I left on that prompt for long enough it would eventually start their whiptail installer. I'll see if it hangs on anything from serial.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Debian 11 is out

« on: November 17, 2021, 02:46:01 pm »

I feel ya. I am on the fence about whether or not I even want to use a dedicated GPU anymore, since I don't really play games much at all. And configuring a Raptor system with just the Aspeed graphics is so much less headache. What we really need is a good fully open top-to-bottom graphics add in card. Even if it's just mediocre performance.

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Legacy POWER Hardware / Re: Old stuff survey

« on: November 12, 2021, 07:06:14 pm »

Debian (sid) is still available for big-endian systems.

Thanks but I've since discarded the device. It really was barely powerful enough to use for anything beyond novelty.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Debian 11 is out

« on: November 12, 2021, 06:54:34 pm »

It looks like you figured some of it out but firmware files basically just need to be in /lib/firmware/amdgpu/ for whichever GPU you have.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Debian

« on: November 12, 2021, 06:48:54 pm »

I ran into something like this when I tried Debian 11 also. Apt gave me a message about possible missing firmware, even though I know for a fact that the bin files for polaris were present from installing firmware-amd-graphics. And Dan may not see your earlier comment addressing him so it might be worth messaging his account.

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Applications and Porting / Re: Chromium and Ungoogled Chromium DNF Repository

« on: November 12, 2021, 06:36:36 pm »

I would also be willing to donate for Firefox improvements. The web has coalesced around chrome/blink only because there is so much inertia on its side and I'd rather help against that inertia. For perspective, is it not the same as with x86 vs POWER?

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Debian

« on: October 30, 2021, 01:32:57 pm »

I typically only run into dpkg locked when there is an apt installation running in another terminal or window. Do you have any others open?

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Applications and Porting / Re: How to build Barony Game

« on: October 30, 2021, 01:29:45 pm »

If you're trying to run the current release of Barony, there is a breaking change in SDL image library beyond 2.0.9.

You will need to grab an older version of libSDL2-2.0.so.0 , libSDL2_ttf-2.0.so.0 and libSDL2_image-2.0.so.0

and launch with: LD_PRELOAD="$LD_PRELOAD /path/to/libSDL2-2.0.so.0 /path/to/libSDL2_ttf-2.0.so.0 /path/to/libSDL2_image-2.0.so.0" /path/to/barony

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Talos II / Re: Order processing time

« on: October 29, 2021, 09:58:32 pm »

And also an update on Blackbirds recently https://twitter.com/RaptorCompSys/status/1454158996261253125

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Talos II / Re: Order processing time

« on: October 25, 2021, 02:09:48 pm »

I ordered a board last November and still have no idea if or when I will receive it, however the part was listed as Backordered. It's just killing me because my main board has been unusable after a personal blunder.

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Firmware / Re: coreboot for Talos II and Talos II Lite: we looking for beta testers

« on: October 14, 2021, 07:48:10 pm »

Are there any plans for adapting this also to Blackbird?

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: AMD rendering issues with Debian Bullseye

« on: August 01, 2021, 03:18:31 pm »

The install media has data, I've provisioned it on different flash drives just to be sure it wasn't the drive. Options are found for Rescue mode, Automated Install, Default Install etc.

The VGA disable jumper is out of the system when I select to boot an install option,

Code: [Select]

SIGTERM received, booting...
_And it hangs on that output. I see the USB flash drive activity LED react for a few seconds, so I believe it is booting but I just have no way of seeing the output. I switch the HDMI cable over to the dedicated GPU just in case, but nothing. In the past I only ever used the integrated HDMI during OS install or when any boot setting needed to be changed.

When I reach the new web control panel over BMC, it states Open Power/PNOR firmware version as open-power-blackbird-v2.3-rc2-84-g7cbe7a8d, and below that BMC as 2.7.0-dev-581-g18878e4f6. I wonder if I accidentally grabbed the development branch firmware. Pretty sure it was just whatever was linked on https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Blackbird/Firmware . Shouldn't they both be either 2.7 or 2.3 without mixing releases?

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: AMD rendering issues with Debian Bullseye

« on: July 24, 2021, 02:35:51 pm »

7/24

Updated the BMC and PNOR to v2.00 firmware, following the correct information.

It seems to have taken, but now USB boot media can no longer be booted. It just hangs with a Sigterm event. I also see that the BMC firmware now shows as 0.00.0000 for some reason.

To be quite honest, I am getting pretty tired of fighting with this thing since June. I'm going to try a few more things but am prepared to begrudgingly shelve this hardware.