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User Zone / Re: Calling for gaming experiences

« on: Today at 07:53:48 am »

Another one is FreeCS
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeCS-Open-Counter-Strike
https://github.com/eukara/FreeCS

There is also AssaultCube Reloaded
https://acr.victorz.ca/

And Urban Terror
https://www.urbanterror.info/home/

Dunno if it's comparable to CSGO

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: Request for proposals: Who to donate my Blackbird and Power 9 CPU?

« on: Today at 07:37:55 am »

Another possibility is kernel.cafe. Don't know if it still exists. I will see.
https://twitter.com/thomrstrom/status/1361454356533415937

Edit: Here is already a thread about it
https://forums.raptorcs.com/index.php/topic,263.msg1979.html

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User Zone / Re: Calling for gaming experiences

« on: August 12, 2022, 05:54:37 pm »

I can’t speak to the state of CS: GO’s source leak, but a friend of mine worked at Valve for years and was very familiar with the Source engine.

You'll find some CSGO repos on GitHub like Kisak-Strike

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General Discussion / Re: HighPoint SSD7505 RAID tools for ppc?

« on: August 12, 2022, 05:43:42 pm »

You could try a Riser Cable, like this
https://www.coolermaster.com/catalog/cases/accessories/universal-vertical-gpu-holder-kit-v2-pcie-40/

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User Zone / Re: Calling for gaming experiences

« on: August 12, 2022, 07:28:11 am »

Doom 3 should also work on POWER9
https://forum.hyperion-entertainment.com/viewtopic.php?f=58&t=4645

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: Request for proposals: Who to donate my Blackbird and Power 9 CPU?

« on: August 12, 2022, 07:25:41 am »

That's a very good idea, too.

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: Which GPU would *you* choose?

« on: August 10, 2022, 10:54:52 am »

Any of these cards should working. What is your concern? 64K issue is solved since Kernel 5.10.101. I have a RDNA1.
Do you own one of these cards already?

The only cards aren't working are RDNA2. But Raptor is working on it.

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: Request for proposals: Who to donate my Blackbird and Power 9 CPU?

« on: August 09, 2022, 04:18:20 pm »

I know someone in Hungary who would certainly be very happy about it. Unfortunately he doesn't have the money to ever buy a Blackbird. He is a developer and connected to Open Source of course.

If he would be suitable for you, send me a PN.

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: Necessary firmware for Navi14

« on: August 06, 2022, 07:44:47 am »

And one more thing. When you blacklist the AST GPU on boot, then you don't need a xorg config file at all.
You only need the config file when you're using the AST GPU (for high resolution) or if you don't blacklist the amdgpu or AST GPU.

BUT on Void you have to blacklist the other GPU otherwise it won't work. Anyway it's the better solution to blacklist one of the GPUs.

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: Necessary firmware for Navi14

« on: August 05, 2022, 11:19:26 am »

The same is written on the Wiki.
On Void you can choose active Kernels like 5.4 / 5.10 / 5.15 / 5.18.
All needed patches on Void are included. Means you don't need "amdgpu.aspm=0" anymore. Apart from Kernel 5.15.x, IIRC.

Edit: Already added in Kernel 5.15.54. 5.16 and 5.17 are already EOL.

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: AMD GPU at boot

« on: July 30, 2022, 08:32:38 am »

On Void Linux it's up-to-date
https://github.com/void-ppc/void-packages/tree/master/srcpkgs/vscode

CodeBlocks is also a possibility.

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: AMD GPU at boot

« on: July 30, 2022, 06:51:14 am »

You are aware that VScode is available, too. Right?

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: Arctic Tern user manual posted

« on: July 29, 2022, 04:56:17 pm »

I agree.  But I think it's better to think of Arctic Tern as a dev board rather than the final "make the boot fast" commercial product.

Although the software/gateware may not currently support it, the Arctic Tern was clearly designed with a lot of other neat features in mind (*).  It's priced with margins appropriate for a low-volume development board.

I can definitely see a future stripped-down bare bones "just speed up the boot process" version consisting of just the AT1MB1, the FSI adapter, and a $10 adapter PCB.

Absolutely! No blame from my side. A development board is for developers. I'm also hoping for a striped-down version in the future. It was also the right decision to release the DB first.

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Talos II / Re: Indium pads required for 18-core CPU on Talos II Lite?

« on: July 29, 2022, 04:47:49 pm »

It's mandatory.

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: AMD GPU at boot

« on: July 29, 2022, 04:45:48 pm »

Was this test on POWER only for fun or does your company also develop on POWER? Will there be some optimizations, too?
A chart would be good. The numbers aren't that bad for POWER9 36c/144t against the 64c/128t