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Talos II / Re: Thinking of selling my Talos II System

« Last post by helen on Today at 11:56:46 am »

Hi, I'm interested

I have a Talos II lite, and would very much like to have a second Talos, in particular one with a dual CPU mainboard.
Then I could have a workstation with more PCI-capability, and can use my current Lite like a pure server.

I live in Norway, and may consider a trip during the summer to save on shipping.

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

« Last post by mparnaudeau on May 14, 2026, 11:06:07 am »

tle: ppc64 is POWER8+ only, no PPC970/ PA6T?

Only POWER ISA 2.7+ and Little Endian only at this stage. I do plan to support Big Endian but the amount of work would be triple (POWER8, POWER9 and POWER10 fast paths all need to be carefully revised and tested).

I wish I could offer support for PPC970/PA6T but lacking of real hardware would make it very hard for me to pick up many issues.

I have a PowerMac G5 with Debian (and also an X1000 but haven't try Linux on it for years). I have very few time and I have no experience with the topic but if it helps to build and test some things, you're welcome.

A comment about your initial message though: you asked to people for a review of your pull request but to me, as a human, it is not possible to review such big pull request.

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

« Last post by ClassicHasClass on May 14, 2026, 10:01:16 am »

Fun! (But requires Leopard.)

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Talos II / Thinking of selling my Talos II System

« Last post by isengaara on May 14, 2026, 06:08:36 am »

I have a full Talos II (eary bird, Blackbird and Talos™ II Lite did not exist back then) that I baught for a quite cheap price.
Since I do not plan to add a second POWER9 CPU and a Blackbird with SATA and HDMI is better for my use case, I now think of selling my Talos II.

My system uses a SuperMicro SC732i-500B, a first generation 4-core IBM POWER9 CPU and has 16GB of RAM.
I live in Germany and accept cash payments in Euro. I also have a bank account that supports US Dollar.

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

« Last post by MPC7500 on May 13, 2026, 01:49:23 pm »

OT: Then this is for you
https://macintoshgarden.org/games/source-engine-configurator-ppc

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

« Last post by ClassicHasClass 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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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] LuaJIT PPC64 support

« Last post by MauryG5 on May 11, 2026, 01:14:27 pm »

Power 12 will happen because Power's chief engineer, William Starke, spoke about it directly. He did an interview not long ago announcing Power 11 and that immediately after that, there will be a move to Power 12, which will also have a new production process. The point is that if it doesn't return to being completely open, unfortunately, we won't have a sequel to Power 9...

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] Upstreaming PPC64 optmisation patch for Google SKIA library

« Last post by MauryG5 on May 11, 2026, 01:03:54 pm »

Unfortunately, Google doesn't offer any support for ppc64. I don't know if they're still afraid of us, but the fact remains that this is the situation. But as for the implementation, since Tim is following and developing Chormium ppc64, can't he do it himself in the version he regularly updates? Or maybe he already will...

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] Upstreaming PPC64 optmisation patch for Google SKIA library

« Last post by MPC7500 on May 11, 2026, 09:32:50 am »

I don't think Google has ever accepted a ppc64le patch, sadly.

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

« Last post by MPC7500 on May 11, 2026, 09:30:46 am »

You could do it via QEMU. But yes, you need someone to test. Cameron has the hardware, IIRC.
But yes, it's more important to make it work on le. I dislike Chromium.