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Blackbird / Re: Alternative processor for Blackbird

« on: September 22, 2026, 08:28:43 pm »

Some people have run parts with more cores in them. It appears to work with sufficient cooling, though obviously this is out of spec for the board.

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User Zone / Re: fastppcx86 - an x86-64 userspace emulator for power8 and up.

« on: September 22, 2026, 08:27:38 pm »

Only one GPU installed. The issue was originally my SATA card, but the patch for that should be in this kernel, so I need to do more digging.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Linux 7.2

« on: September 20, 2026, 12:30:11 pm »

7.2.5 isn't working on mine either. However, I also got bit by the issue with some SATA cards causing a kernel panic in earlier kernels, so I need to debug this further. I'm still booting 6.14 on a current Fedora userland, which is not ideal.

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User Zone / Re: fastppcx86 - an x86-64 userspace emulator for power8 and up.

« on: September 20, 2026, 12:29:12 pm »

Excellent! I'm still having trouble with current kernels on my system and the particular cards I have, but once I get that figured out, I want to play with this more (it's Fedora, so it's 64K pages).

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General Hardware Discussion / Re: Lekuo SouthBridge Max PB65MX3

« on: September 02, 2026, 05:52:19 pm »

I got bit with the SATA driver problem on recent kernels which appears to be an issue with some of these cards not properly working as 64-bit. I'm going to try 7.2 this weekend which has a patch for the specific card I have in the T2. The Blackbird's onboard SATA seems to be fine.

But that card interests me because I'm trying to free up some slots and I find my current two NVMe-layout a little wasteful.

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User Zone / Re: fastppcx86 - an x86-64 userspace emulator for power8 and up.

« on: August 05, 2026, 04:59:06 pm »

Sure seems appropriate to me. I'll have to try it out.

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] dosbox-staging -- one of the best choice for DOS gaming

« on: July 10, 2026, 01:09:17 pm »

tle has a fork of it with the JIT I wrote just before the deletion landed.

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] dosbox-staging -- one of the best choice for DOS gaming

« on: June 08, 2026, 10:42:55 am »

I doubt they will reconsider it, and I don't intend to contribute any further work upstream given the relative abruptness of the decision. That said, it's their project and their policies, of course.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Bootstrapping native Void Linux (ppc64le) on Talos II

« on: May 27, 2026, 09:56:34 am »

Still, good work.

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] JIT support for Firefox

« on: May 14, 2026, 10:01:16 am »

Fun! (But requires Leopard.)

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] JIT support for Firefox

« on: May 11, 2026, 05:22:50 pm »

I have a Quad G5, but it runs Tiger, and I am not likely to run Linux on it. Similarly, my POWER6 runs AIX.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 44 officially released!

« on: April 29, 2026, 03:29:09 pm »

Is DHCP working OK with your internal Ethernet ports? I can't figure out why it WON'T work in Fedora, it WILL work in Petitboot, and it DOES work if I connect a USB Ethernet adaptor and plug the network into that.

I can't really test this on the T2 because it has a static IP.

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] JIT support for Firefox

« on: April 24, 2026, 09:46:48 pm »

Good work picking it up. Unfortunately I'm having trouble with Fedora on my Blackbird (won't DHCP through my wifi bridge), so I can't really check it right now, but I've been following the commits as they land.

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] Adding support for POWER SIMD in ispc lib

« on: February 15, 2026, 12:01:04 pm »

I'll do my best, though I'm currently in a semi-permanent away job, so I'm not on my POWER9 much for sustained periods (part of why there hasn't been much Talospace content either). Job market isn't so great in my line of work these days.

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] Adding support for POWER SIMD in ispc lib

« on: February 12, 2026, 10:46:15 am »

Looks like a great start.