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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: FreeBSD 16 plans to drop support for PPC64.

« Last post by ClassicHasClass on November 18, 2025, 10:48:47 am »

Thanks. I know Warner and I asked him to clarify if this is BE-only or if this applies to ppc64le also.

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Operating Systems and Porting / FreeBSD 16 plans to drop support for PPC64.

« Last post by DKnoto on November 18, 2025, 10:07:29 am »

Hi

I have sad news for fans of diversity on the PPC64 platform. The FreeBSD team plans to discontinue support for PPC64 starting with version 16. Link to the original discussion: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-arch/2025-November/001078.html.

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Talos II / Re: Ubuntu 20.04 5.4.0-167: kexec load failed

« Last post by MauryG5 on November 17, 2025, 07:26:55 am »

I currently also use Ubuntu sometimes as an alternative to Debian, I use both, I must say that 24.04 works well and even runs with its Kernel 6.8.0.X, but I use a Radeon 5700 XT as a graphics card which apparently doesn't work with the new Kernels on Debian 12 and 13 which I still can't use today and I have to use the long-life version 6.1.X...

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] Electron support for ppc64le

« Last post by DKnoto on November 12, 2025, 07:25:23 am »

I wonder if https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux will work?

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Talos II / Re: Ubuntu 20.04 5.4.0-167: kexec load failed

« Last post by Hasturtium on November 11, 2025, 12:23:42 pm »

When I dallied with Ubuntu 24.04 earlier this year I seem to recall having issues with the stock 6.8 kernel that manifested in not being able to use my Radeon W6600. It would simply hang and not respond to the kernel's attempts to initialize it. That isn't the same as not being able to boot at all, but maybe you should consider trying a different version altogether?

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Talos II / Re: Ubuntu 20.04 5.4.0-167: kexec load failed

« Last post by ry60003333 on November 09, 2025, 01:17:14 am »

I'm totally fine with the mods moving the thread if they feel there is a better location. 

Unfortunately though this problem has returned, and running

Code: [Select]

update-initramfs is not resolving the issue. Booting the old kernel works, but of course I can't stay on the old kernel forever.

The problematic kernel in this case is: 6.8.0-87-generic



Anyone have any suggestions for additional debugging I could do?

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] LuaJIT PPC64 support

« Last post by power9mm on November 07, 2025, 05:05:40 am »

I remember this being the major hang up with the STALKER engine when getting it to compile for ppc64le (x-ray engine) i forgot what we did to get it to work and unfortunately i've lost all the code and work that was done due to theft of the hard drives i had been using in my system from a storage unit break in. There was some kind of working version of it though for ppc64... Also the guy who helped made it possible has vanished and most likely for the worst sad to say...

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] LuaJIT PPC64 support

« Last post by MPC7500 on November 05, 2025, 09:36:46 pm »

Hi,

the latest available upstream version v2.1-20250826 has support for both ppc64
and ppc64el allowing luajit to be built successfully on both of these architectures.

Debian PowerPC Mailing List

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Applications and Porting / [DEV] Electron support for ppc64le

« Last post by tle on November 04, 2025, 05:47:04 pm »

Electron is a well known web-based stack for cross-platform application development. It is not my cup of tea but many popular apps such as VS Code, Atom, Slack, etc are built with it. So having it support ppc64le upstream is definitely a big win for us all.

There is a ticket https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/15691 to gather efforts from the community to get the support implemented. lex-ibm has been maintaining his own build script which is known to work well up to v37. Because he is occupied with other priorities, it would be great if any member could give him a hand to:

* Get his build script to support latest v39
* Extract all patches and submit PRs upstream

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General CPU Discussion / Re: Has anyone done the Phoronix suite recently?

« Last post by mparnaudeau on November 04, 2025, 08:26:24 am »

I see this old message only right now ...

In fact, one year ago, I wrote this article to state on the different Phoronix articles, aggregating information, that concerned performance of Talos 2 / POWER9:
http://www.powerpc-lab.org/linux/2024/09/28/talos2-performance-evaluated-in-2018-2019.html

Based on that, I also wanted to know what has changed since, if some benchmarks and projects got benefit of the feedback provided initially.

This is why I am preparing another article, but this time more oriented toward my configuration (2x 4-Core). I found a reduced set of x86 machines in the same theoretical range of performance. But they mainly have run old versions of benchmarks. So, I also tried to find the most recent versions that have results for the processors I identified.

At the end, I would like to address some issues, contribute to some projects ... and to various phoronix-test-suite repositories (not sure they receive many changes though).