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Blackbird / Re: Regular users issues

« on: April 25, 2020, 08:45:01 am »

So, when I get the Blackbird, will I be able to use it (as a regular user - email/browser) out of the box? or Will I have to learn how to install the OS on this system?

Only if you buy the secure desktop. But you should be familiar with Linux in any case.

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Mod Zone / Re: Low profile heatsink?

« on: April 25, 2020, 08:42:12 am »

Socket name is LGA 2601. There is only the 2U HS from Raptor/ IBM.
q66 has made a custom watercooling solution for his Tyan POWER8 server. It's the same for the Blackbird, because the IBM heatsink for POWER8/ POWER9 are identical.

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Applications and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Ubuntu Server LTS 20.04 is out

« on: April 24, 2020, 08:56:20 am »

Fedora 32 is on it's way, too

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Blackbird / Re: Support for POWER9 22core?

« on: April 22, 2020, 11:12:31 am »

FYI, on the talos IRC is someone who is running a 18-core (190W) POWER9 on a Blackbird. And another one has overclocked a 8-core to 4.3GHz

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Mod Zone / Re: Convert GPU PCI-E X16 to X8

« on: April 21, 2020, 05:45:33 pm »

Yeah, I got mixed up on that one. I thought LaGrange had the most PCIe lanes.

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Mod Zone / Re: Convert GPU PCI-E X16 to X8

« on: April 21, 2020, 09:37:04 am »

[I second that. Please also get rid of all SATA ports. SATA is now a thing of the past or replace SATA with SAS (but I do not think it would be a good idea because of cost factor).

I also think the board should come with at least two M2 port. One is for NVMe SSD and the other for Wifi.

Yes, but the problem is the limited PCIe lanes of the Sforza CPU. LaGrange has more, but is also more expensive for sure.

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Mod Zone / Re: Convert GPU PCI-E X16 to X8

« on: April 20, 2020, 10:18:53 am »

I wish that the future revision of Blackbird would swap position of X8 with X16 slot. Additionally the X8 slot should be open-ended so that X16 card could fit in perfectly without the needs of using adapter card.

Second that and remove the f***ing USB port ...

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User Zone / Re: petitboot error: PHB#0005[0:5]: PHB Freeze/Fence detected !

« on: April 17, 2020, 10:57:48 am »

Great to hear. Do you know what was broken?

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Possibility to install Amiga OS 4

« on: April 08, 2020, 10:37:52 am »

That would be great to have AmigaOS running on Blackbird! At the moment, I think that's only possible under emulation ... with qemu since the support of the Sam460 config seems to be good enough. I would like to try ... when I will have a Blackbird (not ordered yet and I don't know when it will happen).

Also AROS and MorphOS should work. They also supports 460ex boards.

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Talos II / Re: Imprecise EATX terminology considered harmful - SSI-EEB

« on: April 04, 2020, 06:17:53 pm »

For E-ATX mainboards I would definitely go for a Dune Pro.

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Blackbird / Re: Menu and options of PetitBoot

« on: April 03, 2020, 05:19:48 pm »

Someone has to go to this page: https://github.com/open-power/petitboot
And make a request about the desired features.

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Talos II / Re: Imprecise EATX terminology considered harmful - SSI-EEB

« on: April 03, 2020, 05:16:12 pm »

Tl;dr: E-ATX is a shithole. If I wasn't sure about the space in the chassis, I'd choose SSI-EEB.

This would also mean that any E-ATX chassis would be compatible with the TalosII. But this is not the case.
When you ask manufacturers (regarding E-ATX) if the case is 12" x 13" compatible, some say no. For example PHANTEKS Eclipse P300.
And as far as I know Supermicro's form factor for server boards is EE-ATX, which TalosII is also not.

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General Discussion / Re: The pride of being Power!

« on: April 03, 2020, 07:02:08 am »

That are great news for us and Raptor, too!

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General Discussion / Re: Power Architecture enthusiasm & SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19

« on: April 02, 2020, 10:49:44 am »

There are many less-popular specifications, from SAS to DisplayPort to IEEE-1394/FireWire/i.link that I find myself sympathetic to, where much of the opposition seems to be due to existing popularity/install-base. I only hope Power ISA’s future is more like DisplayPort than FireWire.

Oh yeah, I like IEEE1394 (in 2005 we produced FB6000 from Stryker, which was/is used for brain surgery. This board also used 1394b.) pretty much. Sadly, FW3200 never apeared in the mainstream. NuBus was also very cool back in that date.

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User Zone / Re: Sound card enabling

« on: March 31, 2020, 12:44:48 pm »

Q: Why does Sound Blaster AE-9 not work under Linux?
A: Because it is not supported by ALSA.

This means if you select a sound card that is supported by ALSA, it will obviously work under Linux ...