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Talos II / Re: Thinking of selling my Talos II System
« Last post by isengaara on May 23, 2026, 02:18:04 am »Good. In Summer there are some weeks where I am on vacation, please DM me.
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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] JIT support for Firefox
« Last post by MPC7500 on May 20, 2026, 06:35:53 pm »I have a PowerMac G5 with Debian ...
That's good to know. Right now, I'm working with an LLM on porting a non-Linux OS. I still need to ask the lead developers if they accept LLM code. But if everything works out, I'll need someone with actual ppc64 hardware for testing. There is already some (old) ppc code available, but I'm doing ELFv2 ABI ppc64 first, then ppc64le, and finally ppc. A PA6T would also be good for testing.
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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] JIT support for Firefox
« Last post by MPC7500 on May 18, 2026, 06:09:34 pm »Firefox-ESR (with a minor adjustment) runs here, too.
Chimera Linux
LLVM/Clang, PGO + LTO
Build time = 12h
JetStream 3 score:
POWER9, 4core = 28
Apple Silicon M1 = 172
Apple Silicon M4 = 255
By the way, here’s a little tip from me. Generating code with AI is one thing, but nobody really wants to chat with an AI on GitHub. That’s really not a good idea.
Chimera Linux
LLVM/Clang, PGO + LTO
Build time = 12h
JetStream 3 score:
POWER9, 4core = 28
Apple Silicon M1 = 172
Apple Silicon M4 = 255
By the way, here’s a little tip from me. Generating code with AI is one thing, but nobody really wants to chat with an AI on GitHub. That’s really not a good idea.
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Talos II / Re: Thinking of selling my Talos II System
« Last post by helen on May 18, 2026, 11:56:46 am »Hi, I'm interested
I have a Talos II lite, and would very much like to have a second Talos, in particular one with a dual CPU mainboard.
Then I could have a workstation with more PCI-capability, and can use my current Lite like a pure server.
I live in Norway, and may consider a trip during the summer to save on shipping.
I have a Talos II lite, and would very much like to have a second Talos, in particular one with a dual CPU mainboard.
Then I could have a workstation with more PCI-capability, and can use my current Lite like a pure server.
I live in Norway, and may consider a trip during the summer to save on shipping.
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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] JIT support for Firefox
« Last post by mparnaudeau on May 14, 2026, 11:06:07 am »tle: ppc64 is POWER8+ only, no PPC970/ PA6T?
Only POWER ISA 2.7+ and Little Endian only at this stage. I do plan to support Big Endian but the amount of work would be triple (POWER8, POWER9 and POWER10 fast paths all need to be carefully revised and tested).
I wish I could offer support for PPC970/PA6T but lacking of real hardware would make it very hard for me to pick up many issues.
I have a PowerMac G5 with Debian (and also an X1000 but haven't try Linux on it for years). I have very few time and I have no experience with the topic but if it helps to build and test some things, you're welcome.
A comment about your initial message though: you asked to people for a review of your pull request but to me, as a human, it is not possible to review such big pull request.
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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] JIT support for Firefox
« Last post by ClassicHasClass on May 14, 2026, 10:01:16 am »Fun! (But requires Leopard.)
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Talos II / Thinking of selling my Talos II System
« Last post by isengaara on May 14, 2026, 06:08:36 am »I have a full Talos II (eary bird, Blackbird and Talos™ II Lite did not exist back then) that I baught for a quite cheap price.
Since I do not plan to add a second POWER9 CPU and a Blackbird with SATA and HDMI is better for my use case, I now think of selling my Talos II.
My system uses a SuperMicro SC732i-500B, a first generation 4-core IBM POWER9 CPU and has 16GB of RAM.
I live in Germany and accept cash payments in Euro. I also have a bank account that supports US Dollar.
Since I do not plan to add a second POWER9 CPU and a Blackbird with SATA and HDMI is better for my use case, I now think of selling my Talos II.
My system uses a SuperMicro SC732i-500B, a first generation 4-core IBM POWER9 CPU and has 16GB of RAM.
I live in Germany and accept cash payments in Euro. I also have a bank account that supports US Dollar.
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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] JIT support for Firefox
« Last post by MPC7500 on May 13, 2026, 01:49:23 pm »
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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] JIT support for Firefox
« Last post by ClassicHasClass on May 11, 2026, 05:22:50 pm »I have a Quad G5, but it runs Tiger, and I am not likely to run Linux on it. Similarly, my POWER6 runs AIX.
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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] LuaJIT PPC64 support
« Last post by MauryG5 on May 11, 2026, 01:14:27 pm »Power 12 will happen because Power's chief engineer, William Starke, spoke about it directly. He did an interview not long ago announcing Power 11 and that immediately after that, there will be a move to Power 12, which will also have a new production process. The point is that if it doesn't return to being completely open, unfortunately, we won't have a sequel to Power 9...
