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General Hardware Discussion / Re: Libre SOC, uh
« Last post by lepidotos on January 25, 2025, 04:55:59 pm »Hopefully it gets picked up by someone else either in funding or manpower, it seemed really promising for the laptop space.
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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: POWER11 on the horizon?
« Last post by lepidotos on January 25, 2025, 04:11:32 pm »I can't see Raptor not wanting direct-attach RAM so they can try to maximize their sales of the new gen, I know I'd be less interested in S1 if I had to also buy the memory off them and I imagine most people would be; I kept hearing price as being the reason a lot of people didn't pick up Talos II or Blackbird I and that's with as much standard PC parts as they had. As much as I want to support them, I don't know if I want to support them enough to spend $900 on 32 GB of DDR5 because it's in a different form factor. I know SoSi is supposed to be a different company, but considering Raptor is probably their biggest partner and use case (if I was a company, I don't think I'd trust Solid Silicon based on their website alone), I don't imagine it's not a priority.
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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: POWER11 on the horizon?
« Last post by ClassicHasClass on January 24, 2025, 04:45:29 pm »The OMI part, for sure, and we're all hoping we get direct-attach RAM out of S1 (or there is an option for direct-attach RAM). But I hope they got the Synopsys IP out of there too.
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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: POWER11 on the horizon?
« Last post by ejfluhr on January 23, 2025, 07:24:24 pm »Video interview with Bill Starke, current chief architect for Power CPUs, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9S_w_Bj3oo
Interesting points:
- Power11 is evolutionary from Power10 architecture
- Core is same POWER ISA version as Power10, will run faster -> presume that means higher frequencies
- more cores active than Power10
- future CPU after Power11, neither confirmed nor denied as Power12, will be chiplet architecture similar to AMD because that was deemed better for scaling up to 16-socket computer
- continued use of OMI memory now and into the future due to performance and RAS benefits
It doesn't look like Power11 will be any different than Power10 as far as open computing goes.
Here's hoping that S1 succeeds...
Interesting points:
- Power11 is evolutionary from Power10 architecture
- Core is same POWER ISA version as Power10, will run faster -> presume that means higher frequencies
- more cores active than Power10
- future CPU after Power11, neither confirmed nor denied as Power12, will be chiplet architecture similar to AMD because that was deemed better for scaling up to 16-socket computer
- continued use of OMI memory now and into the future due to performance and RAS benefits
It doesn't look like Power11 will be any different than Power10 as far as open computing goes.
Here's hoping that S1 succeeds...
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Applications and Porting / Re: Medal of Honor: Allied Assault War Chest (OpenMoHAA)
« Last post by gbudny on January 23, 2025, 01:01:51 pm »I have tried Adelie but I have also only the right part of the screen that is displayed. I don't know if it is my graphics card, or drivers, or the screen ....
Thank you for testing it.
I don't have a PPC computer, but I have some suggestions.
Did you try to change the screen resolution?
Do you have the same issue with the VGA and the DVI port? (I don't know if your graphic card in Power Mac G5 has two ports)
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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: Intel Arc Support in Kernel 6.8
« Last post by carlosgonz on January 22, 2025, 01:20:00 pm »I got some new conversations with Arc engineers today and there is a light on the horizon to get ARC work without blobs or at least with a reduced dose of blobs. I will testing on coming days and report here later.
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Mod Zone / Re: Squeezing out more USB I/O
« Last post by ClassicHasClass on January 21, 2025, 11:27:45 pm »Simple and effective.
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Talos II / Re: SMART repeatedly reporting temperature errors for NVMe SSD
« Last post by jcsiblesei on January 21, 2025, 05:31:56 pm »There's a distinct lack of markings, but I think it's a Supermicro SC216. (The backplane does have markings; it's a BPN-SAS3-216A-N4 for sure.)
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Mod Zone / Squeezing out more USB I/O
« Last post by Borley on January 21, 2025, 04:46:49 pm »Finally, after years of procrastination, I have gotten around to mocking up an additional rear panel USB port.
I used a short USB type A male to USB type A female header cord from Startech, combined with a low-profile PCI bracket.
Nobody sells low-profile USB PCI brackets, so I had to order a dual-port bracket and use a small washer to secure the second fastener.
The cable is just long enough to route over the PCIe add-in cards to the type A header on the Blackbird board. I'm not sure how well (or not) this would have worked with a full sized system.
I tested that it is working and now finally have communication between my workstation and its uninterruptible power supply. Maybe I can start leaving this system powered on 24/7 once more.
Kudos, Raptor Computing Systems, your boards can survive at least:
I hope the next ones are even better.
I used a short USB type A male to USB type A female header cord from Startech, combined with a low-profile PCI bracket.
Nobody sells low-profile USB PCI brackets, so I had to order a dual-port bracket and use a small washer to secure the second fastener.
The cable is just long enough to route over the PCIe add-in cards to the type A header on the Blackbird board. I'm not sure how well (or not) this would have worked with a full sized system.
I tested that it is working and now finally have communication between my workstation and its uninterruptible power supply. Maybe I can start leaving this system powered on 24/7 once more.
Kudos, Raptor Computing Systems, your boards can survive at least:
Code: [Select]
Power Cycles: 1,126
Power On Hours: 7,986
I hope the next ones are even better.
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Talos II / Re: SMART repeatedly reporting temperature errors for NVMe SSD
« Last post by vikings.thum on January 21, 2025, 12:24:10 pm »What is the "heavy duty case" that comes with the TL2SV4?
