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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
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.
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.
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.
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General Hardware Discussion / Lekuo SouthBridge Max PB65MX3
« Last post by rjzak on September 01, 2026, 08:50:59 pm »Phoronix has an article today about a PCIe SouthBridge device with an AMD chipset which adds NVMe, SATA, and USB without needing PCI bifurcation support.
Article: https://www.phoronix.com/review/lekuo-southbridge-max
Device: https://lekuo.com/product_view.php?id=688
My question is: is there any reason to think this would work on PPC64LE with a recent Linux kernel?
I'm interested because I couldn't get the few SATA PCIe devices I tried working on my Talos II box despite being items that should have worked according to the wiki. https://forums.raptorcs.com/index.php/topic,444.msg3917.html
Article: https://www.phoronix.com/review/lekuo-southbridge-max
Device: https://lekuo.com/product_view.php?id=688
My question is: is there any reason to think this would work on PPC64LE with a recent Linux kernel?
I'm interested because I couldn't get the few SATA PCIe devices I tried working on my Talos II box despite being items that should have worked according to the wiki. https://forums.raptorcs.com/index.php/topic,444.msg3917.html
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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] JIT support for Firefox
« Last post by carlosgonz on August 26, 2026, 06:35:31 pm »I can not get compile nodejs, looks like big-endian is unsupported on openssl folder and maybe more libs. I even disabled asm on configure to advance. OMG : (
NODEJS It really needs our superhero tle to re-enable big-endian.
R="/etc/ssl"' '-DENGINESDIR="/dev/null"' '-DTERMIOS' '-DXXH_NAMESPACE=ZSTD_' '-DZSTD_MULTITHREAD' '-DZSTD_DISABLE_ASM' -I../deps/openssl/openssl -I../deps/openssl/openssl/include -I../deps/openssl/openssl/crypto -I../deps/openssl/openssl/crypto/include -I../deps/openssl/openssl/crypto/modes -I../deps/openssl/openssl/crypto/ec/curve448 -I../deps/openssl/openssl/crypto/ec/curve448/arch_32 -I../deps/openssl/openssl/providers/common/include -I../deps/openssl/openssl/providers/fips/include -I../deps/openssl/openssl/providers/implementations/include -I../deps/openssl/config -I../deps/openssl/config/archs/linux-x86_64/no-asm -I../deps/openssl/config/archs/linux-x86_64/no-asm/include -I../deps/openssl/config/archs/linux-x86_64/no-asm/crypto -I../deps/openssl/config/archs/linux-x86_64/no-asm/crypto/include/internal -I../deps/openssl/config/archs/linux-x86_64/no-asm/providers/common/include -I../deps/zlib -I../deps/brotli/c/include -I../deps/zstd/lib -pthread -Wall -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wall -O3 -pthread -m64 -Wall -O3 -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wno-old-style-declaration -m64 -mminimal-toc -O3 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -MMD -MF /home/ca71056042/Documentos/node-v24.20.0/out/Release/.deps//home/ca71056042/Documentos/node-v24.20.0/out/Release/obj.target/openssl/deps/openssl/openssl/crypto/bn/bn_mod.o.d.raw -c
In file included from ../deps/openssl/openssl/crypto/bn/bn_lib.c:13:
../deps/openssl/openssl/include/internal/endian.h:29:2: error: #error "L_ENDIAN defined on a big endian machine"
29 | #error "L_ENDIAN defined on a big endian machine"
| ^~~~~
make[1]: *** [deps/openssl/openssl.target.mk:1277: /home/ceres/Documentos/node-v24.20.0/out/Release/obj.target/openssl/deps/openssl/openssl/crypto/bn/bn_lib.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** Se espera a que terminen otras tareas....
rm 47a1ab3e9f3faad04b54e24199b1e2f8043672e6400dd0069e56a1fad8b1540c.intermediate
make: *** [Makefile:143: node] Error 2
NODEJS It really needs our superhero tle to re-enable big-endian.
R="/etc/ssl"' '-DENGINESDIR="/dev/null"' '-DTERMIOS' '-DXXH_NAMESPACE=ZSTD_' '-DZSTD_MULTITHREAD' '-DZSTD_DISABLE_ASM' -I../deps/openssl/openssl -I../deps/openssl/openssl/include -I../deps/openssl/openssl/crypto -I../deps/openssl/openssl/crypto/include -I../deps/openssl/openssl/crypto/modes -I../deps/openssl/openssl/crypto/ec/curve448 -I../deps/openssl/openssl/crypto/ec/curve448/arch_32 -I../deps/openssl/openssl/providers/common/include -I../deps/openssl/openssl/providers/fips/include -I../deps/openssl/openssl/providers/implementations/include -I../deps/openssl/config -I../deps/openssl/config/archs/linux-x86_64/no-asm -I../deps/openssl/config/archs/linux-x86_64/no-asm/include -I../deps/openssl/config/archs/linux-x86_64/no-asm/crypto -I../deps/openssl/config/archs/linux-x86_64/no-asm/crypto/include/internal -I../deps/openssl/config/archs/linux-x86_64/no-asm/providers/common/include -I../deps/zlib -I../deps/brotli/c/include -I../deps/zstd/lib -pthread -Wall -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wall -O3 -pthread -m64 -Wall -O3 -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wno-old-style-declaration -m64 -mminimal-toc -O3 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -MMD -MF /home/ca71056042/Documentos/node-v24.20.0/out/Release/.deps//home/ca71056042/Documentos/node-v24.20.0/out/Release/obj.target/openssl/deps/openssl/openssl/crypto/bn/bn_mod.o.d.raw -c
In file included from ../deps/openssl/openssl/crypto/bn/bn_lib.c:13:
../deps/openssl/openssl/include/internal/endian.h:29:2: error: #error "L_ENDIAN defined on a big endian machine"
29 | #error "L_ENDIAN defined on a big endian machine"
| ^~~~~
make[1]: *** [deps/openssl/openssl.target.mk:1277: /home/ceres/Documentos/node-v24.20.0/out/Release/obj.target/openssl/deps/openssl/openssl/crypto/bn/bn_lib.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** Se espera a que terminen otras tareas....
rm 47a1ab3e9f3faad04b54e24199b1e2f8043672e6400dd0069e56a1fad8b1540c.intermediate
make: *** [Makefile:143: node] Error 2
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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] JIT support for Firefox
« Last post by tle on August 25, 2026, 09:15:12 pm »
nodejs npm still not available on debian sid ppc64 which Firefox-BE is asking on compile.
Yes i can access you to my powermac-g5.
You could use nodejs in the PPC64LE box to workaround that, the PR description has full instructions
please send me the access details via Private Messages
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