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General Hardware Discussion / Re: Libre SOC, uh

« Last post by Borley on October 09, 2024, 07:48:52 pm »

NLnet pulled their funding for LibreSoC earlier this year with a statement vaguely suggesting that the future of LibreSoC wasn't clear. When you explore the project's web page, it becomes abundantly clear as to why.

It really bums me out too that the project was initially started to address the lack of fully free GPUs. Then later shifted focus to a low power generic SoC, and now this. We are badly in need of a "Raptor Computing Systems" of the GPU space.

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Applications and Porting / Lynis audit

« Last post by Borley on October 09, 2024, 07:43:12 pm »

For a long time, I had simply thought there were just regressions in Lynis. But digging further down revealed some test modules have hard coded paths for specific CPU architectures (ARM and x86, the usual). In retrospect, those modules did start failing right around the time I switched to powerpc...

Adding:

Code: [Select]

${ROOTDIR}lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/security

to Lynis' include/tests_authentication restores working detection for the presence of password strength checkers. I've gone ahead and opened a request at their git.

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General Hardware Discussion / Libre SOC, uh

« Last post by Hasturtium on October 09, 2024, 10:19:14 am »

https://lists.libre-soc.org/pipermail/libre-soc-dev/

I wondered what happened with what appeared to be a promising project, and holy cow.

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Firmware / Re: Idenitfy versions of firmwares

« Last post by mparnaudeau on October 07, 2024, 04:46:12 am »

Analyzing several archives, it appears that these versions reported by lsmcode match with the PNOR firmware V1.05 (from System Package 1.06).

In the OpenBMC shell, dmesg starts with:

Linux version 5.0.7-a8a208fa7346ad643e8f6100c49cb7b8468b6d38 (oe-user@oe-host) (gcc version 8.3.0 (GCC)) #1 Fri Jul 19 13:24:42 UTC 2019

It seems that refers to BMC V2.00, as in its package, I can see:

U-Boot fitImage for Phosphor OpenBMC (Phosphor OpenBMC Project Reference Distro)/5.0.7+gitAUTOINC+a8a208fa73/talos

That seems to be strange because reading again and again several release notes, I understand that BMC V2.xx don't work with PNOR V1.xx ...

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General CPU Discussion / Re: 3U HSF End of Life'd

« Last post by Hasturtium on October 05, 2024, 09:07:43 pm »

The "talk is cheap" thing they've got going is kind of nice, until it's not any more. Maintaining a joyful anticipation for Talos III/Blackbird II/S1 systems with no news whatsoever for more than 11 months (with the announced release date ending in less than two months) is probably not something people are going to do.

Not even on their Txitter? I haven't been able to check ever since the API got closed off for frontends like nitter.

Knock on wood, but xcancel.com still works for me in a pinch. Their dead bird site account has not updated since May 16th of this year, when they retweeted something from OpenPower. Prior to that their last update was in February announcing the new BMC firmware, which I have foolishly still not gotten around to installing yet.

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General CPU Discussion / Re: 3U HSF End of Life'd

« Last post by lepidotos on October 05, 2024, 12:35:56 am »

Nope, that seems to be where the April date comes from, though they did retweet something posted in May.

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General CPU Discussion / Re: 3U HSF End of Life'd

« Last post by Borley on October 04, 2024, 11:41:45 pm »

The "talk is cheap" thing they've got going is kind of nice, until it's not any more. Maintaining a joyful anticipation for Talos III/Blackbird II/S1 systems with no news whatsoever for more than 11 months (with the announced release date ending in less than two months) is probably not something people are going to do.

Not even on their Txitter? I haven't been able to check ever since the API got closed off for frontends like nitter.

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General CPU Discussion / Re: 3U HSF End of Life'd

« Last post by lepidotos on October 04, 2024, 09:51:52 pm »

It seems SoSi's last LinkedIn post was only three months ago so I don't quite have alarm bells ringing just yet, but it would be nice to at least get like a photo of a prototype board or screenshot or something. We know they're working on it and they've released more information than that like it's compatible with at least one major heatsink format (I'm guessing SF2).

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General CPU Discussion / Re: 3U HSF End of Life'd

« Last post by MPC7500 on October 04, 2024, 10:25:21 am »

Same. But I prefer that something is only announced when it is more or less immediately available. But what's definitely bad is that we haven't heard anything from RaptorCS since April. Apart from new hardware.

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / for sale: two workstations, Talos II dual CPU / Radeon RX580 8GB

« Last post by pocock on October 04, 2024, 08:49:29 am »

Hi all,

My Talos II systems have worked very well for a number of years

I recently had some experiences with BIOS updates on hardware from another vendor.  The vendor requires people to have accounts, support contracts and running a specific operating system to run some utilities.  As the hardware had a very old BIOS firmware it couldn't update directly to the current version.  It was a huge hassle and it reminded me of the benefits of having things like petitboot and open source BIOS code.

Nonetheless, it feels foolish for me to spend time testing the platform and creating patches when some people are undermining collaboration in larger Linux distributions.

With that in mind I'm looking to sell the two workstations.  I will probably spend more of my time on other areas of open source.  By purchasing the workstations, you are indirectly supporting my work in other areas.

I can sell them whole or to reduce shipping costs I could remove them from the cases and sell the combination of motherboard/CPU/heatsink/memory without case/GPU.

Full specifications and proposed prices below.  Offers will be considered.

Regards,

Daniel


Workstation A, build price over EUR 6500, sell for EUR 4,500, buy only Talos II motherboard/two CPUs/HSF/RAM only EUR 3,800:

Motherboard/Dual CPU/HSF bundle	Raptor	T2P9D01	1
Heat sink fan (HSF) – 3U	IBM	01KL960	2
CPU - 8-core POWER9 3.8Ghz	IBM	CP9M32	2	dual CPU
RAM ECC 16GB DDR4-2666	Samsung	M393A2K40CB2-CTD	8	(total: 128GB, spread over all eight channels for maximum performance)
Case	Fractal	Define 7 XL	1
PSU	Seasonic	Prime TX 850	1
GPU	AMD / Saphhire	Radeon RX580 8GB	1
GPU riser	Fractal		1

Workstation B, build price approx EUR 5,400, sell for EUR 3,500, buy only Talos II motherboard/two CPUs/HSF/RAM only EUR 2,900 :

Motherboard/Dual CPU/HSF bundle	Raptor	T2P9D01	1
Heat sink fan (HSF) – 3U	IBM	01KL960	2
CPU in bundle – 4-core POWER9 3.8GHz	IBM	CP9M01	2	dual CPU
SATA controller			1
CD/DVD ROM drive			1
RAM ECC 16GB DDR4-2666			8	(total: 128GB, spread over all eight channels for maximum performance)
PSU	Seasonic	Prime TX 850	1
Fans	Noctua	NF-A14 chromax black swap	3
GPU	AMD / Saphhire	Radeon RX580 8GB	1