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User Zone / Re: fastppcx86 - an x86-64 userspace emulator for power8 and up.

« Last post by ClassicHasClass on August 05, 2026, 04:59:06 pm »

Sure seems appropriate to me. I'll have to try it out.

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User Zone / Re: anyone running local LLMs?

« Last post by daedalao on August 04, 2026, 11:27:24 pm »

Could've fooled me, I've been running claude code on power.

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User Zone / fastppcx86 - an x86-64 userspace emulator for power8 and up.

« Last post by daedalao on August 04, 2026, 09:56:57 pm »

I don't know how to program, I just understand the concepts of hardware emulation. I forked this from FEX-Emu a few months ago. Myself and another contributor used a mixture of local llms running on our power hardware and claude code. All work was done on Arch Power maintained by kth5. There is a lot of work to do as I only have a power8 machine, my co-contributor has a power9 workstation.

edit: I linked the wrong repo, here.
https://github.com/daedalao/fastppcx86

This video shows launching windows Portal 2 via proton from Steam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eh6YbRWqHM

I don't know if this is the appropriate forum for this post.

Edit: This requires a 4k page size. I don't have 64k setup at the moment.

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Blackbird / My Blackbird and Fractal Design Meshify C arrived yesterday

« Last post by isengaara on August 04, 2026, 02:57:53 pm »

I completed assembling my system and everything is working perfectly. Except the two front panel LEDs, only one of them lights up when the chassis power is turned off.
Soon I will buy some SATA cables and 4-pin ARGB fans for the case. Unfortunately the included fans are 3-pin, which will always spin up at full speed.

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

« Last post by isengaara on August 04, 2026, 02:49:03 pm »

Sold

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

« Last post by tle on August 03, 2026, 11:48:28 pm »

Thanks tle. FF BE it is huge milestone.

So next milestone will be GLES-3.0 BE  mesa driver support, otherwise firefox webrender hard accel do not work. Atm only gles2.0 extensions is supported on BE.

That's way out of scope. Even if I want to do it, I have zero clue about mesa codebases. My initial goal was to get SpiderMonkey up and running on BE. Fortunately the full Firefox can be built and ran successfully (despite of lacking optimisations in many components). I guess that is enough as foundation for the community to improve upon.

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

« Last post by carlosgonz on August 03, 2026, 07:46:31 pm »

Thanks tle. FF BE it is huge milestone.

So next milestone will be GLES-3.0 BE  mesa driver support, otherwise firefox webrender hard accel do not work. Atm only gles2.0 extensions is supported on BE.

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

« Last post by tle on August 03, 2026, 07:07:45 pm »

So tle firefox port already support big endian?
This Firefox-v153 patches work on ESR140.12?

thanks of adavance.

Yes BE is now fully supported.

The ESR 153 patches will NOT work on ESR 140.

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

« Last post by carlosgonz on August 03, 2026, 06:01:22 pm »

So tle firefox port already support big endian?
This Firefox-v153 patches work on ESR140.12? the reason it is because i use gnu icecat, then icecat 153esr it is not released yet to patch.

So gnu icecat superpowerpc big endian it is my real dreams!!! atm i use icecat 140.12 superpowerpc little endian, but without JIT WASM either VSX

thanks of adavance.

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

« Last post by tle on July 24, 2026, 08:16:56 am »

@tle

I'll try to add your patches from yesterday for version 153 to my Void Linux templates as soon as possible and run some comparison tests with version 152.

I'd like to point out that Firefox is actually slower than Chromium (on x86_64 and aarch64) for the same KrakenJS tests.