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

« Last post by ClassicHasClass on Today at 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.

« Last post by ClassicHasClass on Today at 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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Talos II / For Sale: Talos II Workstation (dual 18-core POWER9, 128 GB, WX9100), BC, Canada

« Last post by rheaplex on September 18, 2026, 09:19:32 pm »

Selling my Raptor Talos II Secure Workstation (TL2WK2), shipped from Raptor February 2022. Boots and runs clean; selling because I no longer need a second big box at home.

Configuration (as ordered from Raptor, except for GPU):

Talos II mainboard in workstation chassis with PSU
2× IBM POWER9 v2 18-core CPUs (CP9M36), Raptor heatsink/fan assemblies — 36 cores / 144 threads
128 GB DDR4 ECC registered RAM (2× 64 GB)
AMD Radeon Pro WX 3200 (4 GB Polaris, works out of the box with amdgpu)
Creative X-Fi 7.1 sound card
1 TB Samsung NVMe - will wipe before shipping

Condition: Fully working.
Cosmetic: the top hinge on the front-panel door is broken, but the door still swings and locks normally. Chassis closing screws show a little wear. No other damage; never overclocked, home use, non-smoking.

Shipping: From British Columbia, Canada. Will ship to the US and EU in original packaging. I'll quote actual cost before you commit. Shipped DDU - buyer is responsible for any import duties. US import duties in particular have changed recently, so do check. Local pickup on Vancouver Island or Lower Mainland welcome and cheaper for everyone.

I'd prefer to sell it whole, but will consider selling the mainboard + both CPUs + heatsinks as a bundle (RAM and GPU separately) if that's what people want.

Message me with any questions, commands to run, and offers.

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

« Last post by daedalao on September 12, 2026, 01:39:51 am »

Currently working on 64k page size support. It's in it's infancy and things may be broken. With native wine (pp64le wine) it works to launch Cyberpunk 2077, Witcher 3, rimworld.

edit: wine-ppc64le is on 11.16 and enables sparse topology support. https://github.com/jbettcher-wg/wine-ppc64le

Everything I've been doing has been using Arch POWER. https://archlinuxpower.org/

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User Zone / Re: anyone running local LLMs?

« Last post by rheaplex on September 06, 2026, 08:19:50 pm »

From memory, llama.cpp with Vulkan should work with Nvidia GPUs but I haven't tried that recently.

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

« Last post by carlosgonz on September 05, 2026, 06:00:19 pm »

Hello i got compiled  tle  firefoxppc64-big-endian port  on power5. It work really good. I like it. thank you thank you  tle.

Also this time gnu gnulinux 7.1 worked on nouveau by 64k ppc5-big-endian. (No more crashing nouveau on 64k), however i not sure why is not worked 64k on power9-little-endian and nouveau,.

So yes i have  full-powerpc  big-endian 64k experience just now without blobs-blackboxes and gles2-nir. And very soon i will move my raptor-blackbird powerpc for  debian big-endian, as nouveau started work on 64k.

Issues found:
1)  Endianess issues on top-bar browser-buttons as you can see on image, the buttons stay white than black.
2) Power9,10,8 patch is conflict to power5 patchset, so this make firefoxppcbe-on-power5 hung on booting after get compiled because nss-vsx  binaries.. Firefoxppc64be autoenable and force  NSS / *  by makefile to use hash-sha512-and-mcrypto hard accel vsx on power5 compilation. So nss by hard-accel  /  mcrypto only supported by vsx which power5 lack,  however i not sure if firefox nss mcrypto hash-sha512 is compatible  to power-4.5.6.7 vmx hard accel requirements, but it will be nice to support full nss/ to vmx even vmx-emulated than software.
So all the problem about is from here:  security/nss/lib/freebl

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

« Last post by MPC7500 on September 05, 2026, 09:30:55 am »

Thanks. And I was already thinking that maybe there was a hardware issue.

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

« Last post by Corvidae on September 02, 2026, 09:45:00 pm »

I suggest not updating to the 7.2 kernels right now - I ran into an issue on 7.2.0 and 7.2.2 where I got random segfaults in ld64.so.2 while compiling things. It looks like there is some kind of issue with syscalls that causes userspace crashes: https://www.mail-archive.com/linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org/msg258968.html.

There is a suggested patch on that mailing list post, but I'm not sure if anything has been submitted yet. I haven't personally tried 7.2.3, but I didn't spot anything in the changelog that looked like it might have fixed it.

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General Hardware Discussion / Re: Lekuo SouthBridge Max PB65MX3

« Last post by ClassicHasClass 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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General Hardware Discussion / Re: Lekuo SouthBridge Max PB65MX3

« Last post by cy384 on September 02, 2026, 02:24:09 pm »

I actually just put one of these in my Blackbird system, works fine on... whatever version of Ubuntu I have on it (22.04 or 24.04, I forget).  Very nice card for these systems which are really short on pcie slots.  I'm using the m.2 slots (booting from one) and the SATA, haven't tried the USB.