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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Linux kernel packages 5.9.6 for Debian buster with 4k page size available

« on: January 11, 2021, 05:43:52 pm »

You can't compare Debian and Fedora. Fedora is close to upstream (which means up to date packages) and Debian is focused on stability (which means they don't use the latest packages).

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Applications and Porting / Re: Wayland support/port for PPC64el

« on: January 04, 2021, 07:17:55 am »

This is no surprise, since all distributions use, more or less, the same kernel.
And Kernel 5.4 needs the Navi patches.

As MauryG5 wrote, if I login KDE Wayland I get a black screen and have to restart the machine the hard way (push button).

It seems Wayland is not supported with Fedora 33 / Kernel kernel-5.9.16-200.fc33. I do not have a graphical card (use the standard HDMI that comes out of the OpenBMC), so no driver issue I suppose.

Running Wayland on the Blackbird was yet again an unmitigated disaster and I have not seen any information to suggest this has changed for simple framebuffers in general (so if you're a straight BMC-only system as mine is, fuggedaboutit). On the T2, Wayland is still not as snappy as Xorg, but performance was not massively different and window theming and decorations seem more consistent.

ClassicHasClass / Talospace

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Applications and Porting / Re: Wayland support/port for PPC64el

« on: December 31, 2020, 07:41:01 pm »

You could choose Wayland on the login screen. If you have auto-login, logout, choose Wayland, login.

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Applications and Porting / Re: Wayland support/port for PPC64el

« on: December 30, 2020, 05:25:21 pm »

I found this about KDE and Plasma on Fedora:

… Currently KDE still uses X11 and although there is a plasma-wayland session available, it is not considered stable or bugfree at this time ...

But will be default on Fedora 34

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Debian

« on: December 26, 2020, 11:02:15 am »

The problem affects every other distribution as well
https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Troubleshooting/GPU#Xorg_crashes_or_is_laggy_with_the_AST_VGA_GPU & Display stuck at default low resolution with AST HDMI GPU

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: nVidia official proprietary and open source code for POWER

« on: December 26, 2020, 10:55:09 am »

The Nvidia PPC64le driver allows you to use the GPU for compute (headless), only. Sadly.

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: News?

« on: November 29, 2020, 08:14:12 am »

As of today, sadly no news.
I think, I would pick a Talos-II lite if I want to buy a POWER9 mainboard.

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General CPU Discussion / Re: CPU Power 9 8 core più veloci e prestanti

« on: November 25, 2020, 08:01:41 am »

I will not participate in this. The CPU has a TDP of 190W, the Blackbird has a max TDP of 160W.

So from my point of view the CPU is useless. Either the CPU is limited to 160W, if this is not the
case the VRMs of the Blackbird will be grilled over time.

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: News?

« on: November 21, 2020, 10:16:32 am »

Only this. But it's already more than six weeks old.

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: One couldn't have chosen a better time to migrate away from x86

« on: November 21, 2020, 07:58:12 am »

This article is about Apple: Your Computer Isn't Yours

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: One couldn't have chosen a better time to migrate away from x86

« on: November 20, 2020, 07:57:09 am »

Maybe this: Meet the Microsoft Pluton processor – The security chip designed for the future of Windows PCs

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Slackware64-Current

« on: November 19, 2020, 10:45:22 am »

I also installed Slackware successfully on my Blackbird.

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General CPU Discussion / Re: POWER9 water cooling kit

« on: November 19, 2020, 08:26:00 am »

The lack of STR is a big one, IMO.

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

« on: November 16, 2020, 12:53:04 pm »

FWIW, there is absolutely no problem to playback 4K on Navi14

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Blackbird / Re: [amdgpu] [Fiji] Fedora 32 Linux kernel 5.7.x crashes

« on: November 14, 2020, 11:41:18 am »

He is mostly on IRC