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General CPU Discussion / Re: Power11 announced by IBM
« Last post by MPC7500 on July 09, 2025, 09:21:18 am »
What is also interesting:

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While Power11 doesn't appear to offer any more cores per socket than Power10, Big Blue says those cores are substantially more efficient. With the new chips, IBM is introducing the concept of resource groups, a firmware feature that aims to maximize utilization and increase performance without driving up energy consumption. The chips also feature an energy-saving mode that trades a little bit of performance for a 28 percent improvement in efficiency.

The Register

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UPDATE: I have been advised by an anonymous individual with knowledge of the situation that a new Raptor announcement on products under development is scheduled for Q1 2026 ... which would be "six to twelve months after" as predicted. "Open firmware" is specifically mentioned and absolutely planned. It's worth pointing out that both Raptor and SolidSilicon are now listed as top-tier Platinum members for OpenPOWER parallel with IBM itself. That implies SolidSilicon is still in the mix and IBM is still backing OpenPOWER. They stressed this is not an official announcement, so you take it for what it's worth.]

Talospace

I wonder if IBM will sell defective 16-core Power11 as 8 or 4-core Power11 to Raptor.
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General CPU Discussion / Re: Power11 announced by IBM
« Last post by tle on July 08, 2025, 07:00:00 pm »
they claim P11 is 55% better in raw core performance than P9. I do not doubt such claim though however I am questioning if P11 would be more open-source friendly
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General CPU Discussion / Re: Power11 announced by IBM
« Last post by ClassicHasClass on July 08, 2025, 11:14:48 am »
Guess we'll find out on the 25th.
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General CPU Discussion / Power11 announced by IBM
« Last post by Borley on July 08, 2025, 10:12:00 am »
Much performance flexing. Little to be said about improvements in openness.

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2025-07-08-ibm-power11-raises-the-bar-for-enterprise-it
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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Ubuntu 24.04
« Last post by MauryG5 on June 30, 2025, 03:41:37 pm »
Hi, I'm also using Ubuntu a bit but in the LTS version so the latest LTS version. I had version 20 and I updated to the latest LTS version and just after updating I saw that Firefox had removed it. They do it because they push you to use Snap packages but I still preferred to use the .deb version and so I installed that. I saw with my surprise that they finally solved the Firefox problems on Ubuntu, related to saving favorites and similar things that have plagued it for I don't know how many years. I have to say that it works quite well, no problem for my Radeon 5700XT as it is older and more stable. The only thing that I really regret is that it is missing is a version of Chromium to be truly complete. Too bad because I tried to install it and it doesn't let you install it, I tried to do it from the wiki guide but nothing, that guide is no longer good and among other things I also tried to ask on GitHub but even there I didn't get any answer unfortunately... A real shame because if it could be installed it would be perfect...
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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] An attempt to package chromium for ppc64le in the official Fedora DNF repo
« Last post by MauryG5 on June 29, 2025, 08:12:42 am »
guys there is a problem after the last Chromium update, after it opens the main window, it crashes, exits and closes everything. I use it on Debian 12 so the problem is precisely the last update. I think the same will happen if you update to the latest version of Fedora. So be careful and I hope that Raptor is already aware of the problem to fix the bug.
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Operating Systems and Porting / Ubuntu 24.04
« Last post by Hasturtium on June 16, 2025, 07:39:02 am »
Ahoy! Finally had time to sit down and move off of Fedora, and the experience was mostly painless. Ubuntu Server installed without much fuss, but after installing Xorg and Xfce’s dependencies and rebooting the kernel barfed a bunch of error messages about failing to initialize my Radeon W6600. This was remedied by pulling down a newer kernel - some branch of 6.11 IIRC - and then manually pointing X11 to the Radeon instead of the AST2500. Once that was done I found the default web browser crashes at startup with a pointedly unspecific I/O error, so I grabbed a second machine to look up the Firefox PPA, where the latest ESR could be added. This appears to be built without ClassicHasClass’s baseline JIT; if somebody out there has a repo I can use to that end I’d be grateful. There’s still some tire kicking to do - I haven’t installed OpenCL yet and may need to manually compile Deadbeef, but overall I’m pleased.
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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 42
« Last post by ClassicHasClass on May 30, 2025, 09:12:12 pm »
Well, there's some good news. I finally bit the bullet and upgraded the Talos II, expecting I'd just have to deal with Wayland. To my surprise X11 started right up and I'm in Plasma 6.3 with just about everything intact.

But kwin-x11 crashes incessantly on the Blackbird, even with plasma-workspace-x11 installed. I'm pondering if some old residual package is making it work. I would be surprised if the fact the Talos has a GPU is the difference, especially since Wayland does work on the Blackbird with ASPEED graphics.
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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 42
« Last post by DKnoto on May 29, 2025, 02:18:51 pm »
Fedora 42 drives me to despair ;)

Yesterday I noticed that I can't print anything. The driver for my Epson L850 printer disappeared. It does not compile... Fortunately, it's in an older version and in FreeBSD too.
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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 42
« Last post by ClassicHasClass on May 26, 2025, 01:00:27 pm »
The recent GNOME X11 session updates don't fix the problem and I think there's a deeper issue (journalctl flags gnome-shell crashing in libsensors.so ?!). It's borrowed time anyway.

I was able to get Wayland off the ground from the command line on the Blackbird and the fans aren't being driven as hard. It does seem some performance improvements were made in this release, at least for KDE Plasma.
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