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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 44 officially released!
« Last post by MauryG5 on May 29, 2026, 03:30:42 pm »
After a long time, I decided to put Fedora back among my distros to use on Power. I reinstalled it from scratch and I actually noticed the great step forward that Fedora has made on Power, responsive, fluid, made really well now as a desktop. The 7.0.9 kernel was installed when I installed it, a few days ago I installed 7.0.10, in the grub update it tells me in yellow therefore a warning, that it had found the Debian and Ubuntu kernels, normal I say, I also have those currently mounted and it's not the first time I have all 3 of them. The fact is that as soon as I reboot the new Kernel 7.0.10, from petitboot it tells me an initramfs error... I say, but how come I just updated the kernel and it doesn't work anymore? What the hell is going on? I had just decided to put Fedora back and already the problems are starting, is it possible? Now I'm wondering, having given that warning when it found the kernels of the other two, did it mean that it's running out of memory, given the error, in petitboot or is there another problem that prevents me from booting Fedora with both 7.0.9 (which no longer works) and 7.0.10. It only works with the rescue mode at the moment. I tried having it ignore the other kernels, I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the 7.0.10 kernel, I tried reinstalling some parts but nothing works. Any ideas?
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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] JIT support for Firefox
« Last post by Hasturtium on May 28, 2026, 10:36:29 am »
Chiming in to say I've been testing a Fedora build of v152 that has not hiccuped once and finally feels like a full-featured browser. It's slower than Chromium on the same hardware - the Kraken JS test indicated around 1200ms on Chromium, and a skosh over 2100ms on Firefox - but for everyday usage I'm quite happy. Thanks for this!
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Applications and Porting / Re: Porting Overte and QTWebEngine
« Last post by tle on May 28, 2026, 08:59:30 am »
Thanks for sharing. Looks like a very cool project. I am not familiar with Qt so even if I want to lend you a helping hand, I am unsuitable for the job. Having said that I am more than happy to help with testing or review any changes that might related to V8 (as I have a bit of exposure to Chromium side)
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Applications and Porting / Porting Overte and QTWebEngine
« Last post by isengaara on May 27, 2026, 11:57:56 am »
I recently began porting Overte to ppc64le. Since Overte depends on Qt WebEngine, I decided that I should also start porting Qt WebEngine to ppc64le (and maybe also big endian ppc), so I am looking for co-maintainers. Maybe on the weekend I will update my blog post for the project.
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General CPU Discussion / Porting Fayalite to OrangeCrab and Arctic Tern
« Last post by isengaara on May 27, 2026, 11:50:11 am »
I am posting my proposal to port Fayalite to the OrangeCrab and later Arctic Tern FPGA boards. I have used the OrangeCrab to run Microwatt (with Linux and Micropython) with a maze-game written by
Jacob Lifshay some years ago. Now I am part of the Libre-Chip project and also doing my own hardware projects using KiCad.




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Still, good work.
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“Works” might be a bit of an overstatement. I'm starting with a minimal installation. I'm currently putting together a more comprehensive set of packages to perform a full installation and migrate package building from Fedora 42 to Void Linux. Unfortunately, I need to expand my infrastructure with a second processor because the entire build process takes a while on a single C18.
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Wow. That's a big task. This means, VoidLinux is up and running on ppc64le, again?
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Hi everyone,

    I just wanted to share a recent personal milestone. After a few days of intensive compiling and debugging, I’ve successfully bootstrapped a complete, native Void Linux base system (almost 1,000 packages) for ppc64le directly on my Talos II.

    I used Void's xbps-src environment to build everything from source. If anyone else is looking to try this, here are a few technical hurdles I ran into and how I bypassed them:
  • Kernel 6.18 & pSeries LPAR code: The build initially failed on papr-hvpipe.c. Since our machines run on PowerNV (skiboot) and don't need IBM's PAPR w/ LPAR virtualization overhead, I temporarily patched out the failing code with preprocessor macros. My ultimate goal is to build a leaner kernel with CONFIG_PPC_PSERIES completely disabled.
  • x265 compilation errors: The x265 package tripped over AltiVec/VSX hardware optimizations during the 10-bit depth build pass. I had to explicitly disable the altivec option in the package's build template to get it to compile cleanly via standard C++.
  • Booting via Petitboot: Instead of fighting with ISO generation scripts designed for x86, I installed the built packages (xbps-install) directly onto an ext4-formatted USB drive via chroot. I wrote a minimal grub.cfg pointing to the native vmlinux and initramfs, and Petitboot flawlessly parsed it and booted the system via kexec on the first try.
    I'm taking a short breather now, but my next step is to configure the network with ConnMan and compile a native, lightweight graphical environment—likely Enlightenment—to keep the system as responsive and bloat-free as possible.

    If anyone is working on a similar Void/OpenPOWER port and needs details on the xbps-src patches, let me know!

Cheers.
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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] LuaJIT PPC64 support
« Last post by MPC7500 on May 24, 2026, 04:24:09 pm »
This article says it all: IBM Z and ARM
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