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

« on: January 23, 2022, 04:36:42 pm »

No Classic, I was talking about Firefox in general, I was not talking about Firefox on Ubuntu specifically, attention. The problem Firefox has on Ubuntu is that it has a probable conflict with Ubuntu security software and consequently doesn't make Firefox bookmark work but I'm not talking about that. I am talking about the current limitations that Firefox has on some sites where either it does not go at all or is struggling and I am not referring to the Ubuntu version of the Firefox on Power in general. For the bookmarks problem we have reopened the problem with the friend amock who also uses Ubuntu, we wrote that this problem still exists and if they can solve it but I am referring to the navigation problems in general of Firefox not to bookmarks ... Firefox on Power, unfortunately it still reveals less performing and with some limitations compared to Chromium and this creates a big problem since Chromium has remained stationary and or sooner or later if it will no longer be updated, the time will come that we will no longer be able to use it and if Firefox continue with these limitations, we will be out of navigation on a global level ... I also encountered the same problems when I was using Fedora. I haven't used Fedora for a short time, but until recently when I was using it, the problem was still the same on Firefox.

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

« on: January 22, 2022, 03:53:15 am »

I was talking about Firefox not working on some sites, not Chromium ... Firefox is not working on some sites today.

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

« on: January 21, 2022, 10:08:03 am »

Guys, I inform you that given the stalemate that has arisen on Chromium, I wrote directly to Raptor to point out what is becoming a problem for our Power systems or the lack of a well-functioning browser for our architecture.  Unfortunately Firefox, you all know that despite the efforts to be praised by his friend Classic Has, he still cannot browse all sites, there are sites he cannot even enter.  So it is clear that something needs to be done to solve this problem otherwise we will be out of global navigation which in 2022 is unthinkable for a modern computer.  Evidently TLE is no longer able to develop versions after 87 and we have been stuck for some time now.  Raptor is meeting to decide what to do and I hope they find a solution soon.  If anyone needs Chromium continuity support let me know I'm happy to help.

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: GPU options as of December 2021

« on: January 19, 2022, 06:28:43 am »

I have a W5500 which will probably have similar compatibility issues with a W5700.

Firmware is "amdgpu/navi14*.bin". When I started out I had some issues with some firmware releases being incompatible but every firmware revision since ~~ October 2021 has worked.

Linux kernel 5.15 does not work but 5.10 (compiled with 4k pages) does.

Navi 14 goes hand in hand with Navi 10 so yes, when there are problems, they are common to both.  In any case I use 5.15 kernel regularly, since I made some fixes for how Classic Has and MPC7500 told me to do, Kernel 5.15 with 5700 works fine.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: New Kernel 5.16 and new problem

« on: January 17, 2022, 01:17:39 pm »

I have not tried it yet, still waiting for official build from Fedora team.

However I do not think 5.16 is that much different to 5.14 because there aren't major change that benefits PPC.

The AMDGPU is still very unreliable so system freeze is expected. What pagesize do you compile the kernel with?

I personally Fedora I unmounted it from the computer and put it aside, I don't use it anymore. Too bad since he switched to Gnome 40 and they don't improve anything from that point of view so I gave up. Much better Ubuntu that better manages the Gnome in all its forms, it also updates a lot and among other things with the 22.04 it will have an optimization for Power 9 and currently it seems to me that it is the only distro that has it in the pipeline. You have some problems like the unresolved bug in the Firefox history, or the audio CDs that it does not read, but these are things that cannot be overcome because the distro itself works perfectly unlike Fedora or Debian ... In any case, the problem is always for AMD GPU management, something they have changed and now you have to understand what it takes to get it started, for sure other people will notice the problem and will start investigating ...

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: New Kernel 5.16 and new problem

« on: January 17, 2022, 01:00:30 am »

Ever since Daniel Pocock showed me the difference, I always use 4K pages and since then the Kernel on Navi 10 has always worked.  Now I don't know why something is missing, it seems that with 5.16 they have made some modification that requires what it writes in the start screen you see ... I don't know ...

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Operating Systems and Porting / New Kernel 5.16 and new problem

« on: January 15, 2022, 10:32:42 am »

Dear guys you Power, as you know the new Kernel 5.16 has just come out and I like to do it as usual, I wanted to try it immediately, compiling my version.  Obviously now from 5.14 onwards you have to set the AMD GPU parameter to 0 otherwise it won't start.  Well after having done everything and started this beautiful news appeared to me, which you can see in the picture and at that point everything freezes and eventually it does not work and you have to do a reset and restart ... I say it is possible never that every time there must be a new problem in these Kernels !!!!  I can not understand!

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Legacy POWER Hardware / Re: Old stuff survey

« on: January 07, 2022, 12:54:58 am »

Ah I understand, I thought there was talk of that laptop in the works.  In any case, in my opinion this laptop is to be followed, I think it may be interesting for us ... We'll see.

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Legacy POWER Hardware / Re: Old stuff survey

« on: January 06, 2022, 01:03:14 pm »

I have seen something of this Power-based machine from Freescale / NXP. It should be a laptop that apparently features a Power CPU with Freescale's e6500 cores, 1.8 GHZ clock. Of course this CPU is already several years old, it is not recent but it is still interesting to follow and I hope to see something concrete soon. From what they say it should also be able to run Amiga OS 4, bringing in fact the Amiga operating system in lap top ... We'll see ...

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General CPU Discussion / Re: The point about Power 10 currently

« on: January 03, 2022, 01:10:07 am »

Exactly friend Xlinder, the situation at the moment is this, we are in the full P9 period, he has reached a good level of maturity and therefore it is time to make the most of his skills.  For example, just look at Canonical which from this year will start with dedicated P9 support on its Ubuntu ... In the meantime, the most suitable P10 processors will arrive and you can then think about something new ... But it still takes time ... Patience and time to use to make good use of P9!

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

« on: December 31, 2021, 06:54:13 am »

Xlinder yes I know that it refers to an old post of yours but since he wrote on December 29th or 2 days ago, then I thought that his post was worth now since he wrote now and that's why I wrote my personal experience. .. If it solved perfect fine!

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

« on: December 30, 2021, 01:13:13 pm »

I have a hardisk with Debian 11 installed and I use it with my AMD Radeon 5700 XT Navi 10. Obviously I had to use a more recent Kernel than the 5.10 which is by default and I also had to update the firmware to be able to use the Navi 10 but once all this is done, it works quite well under the graphics card. As a Kernel I have compiled a 5.15.2 with 4K pages.

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

« on: December 23, 2021, 03:45:37 pm »

Ei TLE, we are in the Christmas period, now we hope you can get back to work on the Chromium code that we have been waiting for for a long time ... Give us some good news so please ...

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General CPU Discussion / Re: The point about Power 10 currently

« on: December 23, 2021, 07:03:34 am »

Well if you think about it, having the possibility of building a motherboard around a mid-range or low-end processor, all the costs to be incurred are considerably reduced and consequently it becomes accessible to us desktop users.  Currently the P10 is unthinkable, both in terms of costs but also in terms of spaces and exaggerated dimensions of the CPUs, which obviously are high-end and not suitable for us desktop users ...

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General Discussion / Re: Learning POWER9 assembly

« on: December 16, 2021, 03:40:42 pm »

Yes Classic, the problem is specific to the Ubuntu version, it seems that the security software that Ubuntu uses is in conflict with the Firefox bookmark and even trying to disable this Ubuntu security software, it still does not work the same ...