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Applications and Porting / Re: Firefox 91 ESR on void vs Firefox on Fedora 36

« on: July 15, 2023, 04:59:27 am »

Yes, you can do this, though 91ESR is no longer supported. I've finally got spare cycles to finish pulling it up to 102ESR and then trying to get the last problems ironed out of it.

Has there been any updates on this?

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Linux 6.4

« on: July 15, 2023, 04:34:13 am »

Debian 12 and Debian Sid has been working flawlessly on my blackbird system. I am on kernel 6.3.0

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / GUI crashes with flip_done timed out

« on: June 25, 2023, 08:00:49 am »

I am repeatedly getting Xorg/Wayland crashes while using GUI on my Blackbird setup

My GPU is Radeon Pro WX4100 and the same error persists in both Fedora 38 and Debian 12

On dmesg I see the following error message each time it happens

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[   26.592021] amdgpu 0000:01:00.0: [drm] *ERROR* [CRTC:51:crtc-0] flip_done timed out
setting amdgpu.aspm=0 had no effect
setting amdgpu.dc=0 works around the crash but I lose high bandwidth video output and audio sink...

Any insights on this would be much appreciated

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Firmware / Re: Reduce fan speed during boot

« on: June 24, 2023, 08:22:02 am »

I can see that there are alternative workarounds, but I'm wondering if we can make the most out of the open source nature of our systems.

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Firmware / Re: Reduce fan speed during boot

« on: June 24, 2023, 12:37:32 am »

Mainly it's just noise, I am trying to use my Blackbird in a more desktop-like fashion but having to wait a full minute while the fan is running at full speed each time the computer boots is not a very pleasant experience.

Since the firmware is open source I think it would be possible to change the behavior... hopefully change the initial fan speed to something like 70% which is much more acceptable but I am not sure which part of the code is relevant. I searched for the term 'fan' on pnor source tree but I couldn't find something that looked like the boot sequence.

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Firmware / Reduce fan speed during boot

« on: June 23, 2023, 01:21:41 am »

Hello, is there a way to modify the pnor so that the machine does not crank up the fan to full speed during initial boot?

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 33 is out

« on: February 23, 2021, 11:24:22 am »

I'm trying to install Fedora 33 Workstation on my Blackbird but the system hangs in the middle of the install... what could be causing this?

I reckon you should remove all but the NVME or SSD then give the installation a go again

Thanks, actually it seems to be the same problem that I mentioned in another topic, the graphics card doesn't seem to play along with 5.x kernel.
The installation goes through when I remove the graphics card from the system.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Compiling a new kernel for debian

« on: February 23, 2021, 11:21:13 am »

What happens when you try to? What do you see in dmesg?

I just left the computer turned on after it froze, then a few minutes later I got this in the terminal

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Operating Systems and Porting / Compiling a new kernel for debian

« on: February 21, 2021, 08:23:49 am »

Hi, I am trying to use Blackbird with the newest linux kernel.

I'm using the classic commands:

cd linux-5.x.x
cp -v /boot/config-$(uname -r) .config
make olddefconfig
make -j16 deb-pkg

the new kernel builds, fine, boots fine but it cannot reboot or shutdown the computer...

Any words about what could be done about this?

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 33 is out

« on: February 21, 2021, 06:26:24 am »

I'm trying to install Fedora 33 Workstation on my Blackbird but the system hangs in the middle of the install... what could be causing this?

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Firmware / Re: Blackbird firmware build fails on Blackbird

« on: May 24, 2020, 11:41:50 pm »

Discussed this some with the IBM team, the issue will be handled here:

https://github.com/open-power/op-build/issues/3634

Thank you for reporting it. I hope the patch gets delivered to repos soon.

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Firmware / Re: Blackbird firmware build fails on Blackbird

« on: May 18, 2020, 07:28:08 am »

Thanks!  Next time you might try compressing it, as it's just plain text I'm sure the compressed version would end up a lot smaller than 42MB... 

Do you see "cc1: error: no include path in which to search for stdc-predef.h" line in the full log on your x86 box?  I have no practical way to test (no easy access to an x86 machine).

Here is the successful build log from an amd64 machine.

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Firmware / Re: Blackbird firmware build fails on Blackbird

« on: May 15, 2020, 06:56:52 pm »

Can you post the build log from a full clean build?   This one looks like it was restarted, and from the error messages I'm guessing the toolchain didn't compile correctly.

The fastest way to make this work for sure is to install a Debian Stretch chroot, bind mount /proc, /sys, and /dev, then build inside that chroot.  I don't think IBM fully supports the newer software versions in Buster, and from the log I can't (yet) determine why it'd fail on POWER other than it's possible the native compile path is different and somehow broken on Buster.

I'd like to see this fixed, but I'm not 100% sure when I'd have time to get a new environment set up and test build, which is why I'd like to see the full log from scratch build.  Maybe it's something simple (missing package?)   

I got the full log file but as it exceeds the attachment file size limit I temporarily uploaded it onto my server.
Here it is: http://3.1.2.2/temp/fullbuild.log

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Firmware / Re: Blackbird firmware build fails on Blackbird

« on: May 13, 2020, 05:57:57 am »

Yes, the build only fails on ppc64le system, and attached is the full build log file.

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Firmware / Blackbird firmware build fails on Blackbird

« on: May 12, 2020, 10:36:51 am »

When building system firmware v2.00 for Blackbird I am getting the following error as seen in the screenshot.

I used the commands from the wiki page: https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Compiling_Firmware
and the same build finishes successfully on another amd64 system.

Can somebody confirm this?
Both systems run Debian buster.