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Applications and Porting / [DEV] wasmtime is a porting blocker for many rust-based apps

« Last post by tle on April 22, 2024, 05:55:20 pm »

Rustlang-based apps have emerged as the most trendy language/tech choice for Linux apps lately.

Because of lacking of ppc64le backend in wasmtime, many popuilar apps such as Zed text editor, DenoJS could not be ported to ppc64le. There was a report from lleabout (https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/issues/1183) in the past but it did not produce any result yet.

If any member who could take on the work, I am more than happy to crowd source a bounty to reward for their efforts.

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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 April 14, 2024, 04:03:11 am »

Well I think it's still early in fact, then as we know Fedora being a constant test bed has several defects which the developers then correct by running it on the various platforms of us end users and therefore I think that the beta releases are even worse in terms of bugs. Let's wait for the final version of Fedora to arrive and then see how Chromium runs. We have to start again after years of missing this browser. However, for some time now I have seen that the original Google search engine can be used again and now Chromium is also coming out and no longer ungoogled Chromium like a short time ago. Maybe Google has allowed us to use Power again, who knows... Or maybe Raptor still manages to run the regular version, bypassing the block they put in place at the time, I don't know...

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Blackbird / Re: Availability of P9 hardware post-ISA 3.1 HW launch

« Last post by MPC7500 on April 13, 2024, 07:46:59 am »

Vikings doesn't sell RaptorCS products anymore.

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Blackbird / Availability of P9 hardware post-ISA 3.1 HW launch

« Last post by lepidotos on April 13, 2024, 12:38:51 am »

As far as I know, the plan for the Solid Silicon hardware is to release late this year. Will there be a period where you can buy either a Blackbird or the new offering, or will it directly replace it? I assume Vikings keeps a couple in stock at any one time so they'll wait until they run out to discontinue their listing, but I'm not in Europe.

Thanks.

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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 rheaplex on April 12, 2024, 12:45:06 pm »

chromium-browser from 40 prerelease is crashing for me (on Gnome under X and Wayland, and under Hyprland).

With my standard set of plug-ins and pages open:

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> chromium-browser
[0412/102708.587427:ERROR:check.cc(365)] Check failed: false. NOTREACHED log messages are omitted in official builds. Sorry!
[364318:364318:0412/102708.559539:ERROR:check.cc(365)] Check failed: false. NOTREACHED log messages are omitted in official builds. Sorry!
[364318:364318:0412/102709.204710:ERROR:policy_logger.cc(157)] :components/enterprise/browser/controller/chrome_browser_cloud_management_controller.cc(161) Cloud management controller initialization aborted as CBCM is not enabled. Please use the `--enable-chrome-browser-cloud-management` command line flag to enable it if you are not using the official Google Chrome build.
[364318:364318:0412/102713.344891:ERROR:check.cc(365)] Check failed: false. NOTREACHED log messages are omitted in official builds. Sorry!
[364392:364392:0412/102720.809604:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 1 times!
[364392:364392:0412/102722.572608:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 2 times!
[364392:364392:0412/102724.714188:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 3 times!
[0412/103107.321681:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
[0412/103107.334242:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
[0412/103107.338864:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
[0412/103107.340250:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
[0412/103107.435499:ERROR:check.cc(365)] Check failed: false. NOTREACHED log messages are omitted in official builds. Sorry!
[1]    364318 trace trap (core dumped)  chromium-browser
The GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() error occurs when the window changes focus, I think.

In guest mode, just idling:

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> chromium-browser --guest
[0412/103708.627004:ERROR:check.cc(365)] Check failed: false. NOTREACHED log messages are omitted in official builds. Sorry!
[369882:369882:0412/103708.582956:ERROR:check.cc(365)] Check failed: false. NOTREACHED log messages are omitted in official builds. Sorry!
[369882:369882:0412/103708.831739:ERROR:policy_logger.cc(157)] :components/enterprise/browser/controller/chrome_browser_cloud_management_controller.cc(161) Cloud management controller initialization aborted as CBCM is not enabled. Please use the `--enable-chrome-browser-cloud-management` command line flag to enable it if you are not using the official Google Chrome build.
[369882:369882:0412/103711.858597:ERROR:check.cc(365)] Check failed: false. NOTREACHED log messages are omitted in official builds. Sorry!
[369929:369929:0412/103713.406984:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 1 times!
[0412/103939.744484:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
[0412/103939.747291:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
[0412/103939.751427:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
[0412/103939.752799:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
[0412/103939.853552:ERROR:check.cc(365)] Check failed: false. NOTREACHED log messages are omitted in official builds. Sorry!
[1]    369882 trace trap (core dumped)  chromium-browser --guest
Initial research indicated this might be a Wayland issue, but it also occurs under X.

Possibly I don't have a dependency installed or at the correct version. chromium-browser was installed with dnf, though.

If the correct procedure is "wait for the actual 40 release" I'm happy to do that. 

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAME] Minecraft Java Edition (LWJGL being ported)

« Last post by lepidotos on April 09, 2024, 07:28:27 pm »

Pretty good news indeed, we'll see how things go from here.

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: Intel Arc Support in Kernel 6.8

« Last post by ClassicHasClass on April 07, 2024, 03:39:24 pm »

I see you have a 64K page size there. Does 4K do better?

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: Intel Arc Support in Kernel 6.8

« Last post by Hasturtium on April 06, 2024, 08:45:50 pm »

I realize I'm late getting back to this, but that's a bummer. I'm guessing the xe driver isn't behaving better now that kernel 6.8's actually out in the wild, then.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Unexpected suspend of Fedora 39 on Talos II

« Last post by Hasturtium on April 02, 2024, 06:23:57 am »

Ah, thanks for this. I ran afoul of my machine going into suspend over the weekend, and this should set things right going forward.

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Applications and Porting / RustiCL on Fedora 39

« Last post by Hasturtium on April 01, 2024, 02:15:56 pm »

Ahoy. I've been trying to goad RustiCL into working with my Radeon RX 6600 on Fedora 39. To my knowledge I've installed all necessary prereqs for RustiCL to work, and setting RUSTICL_ENABLE=radeonsi does not seem to trigger any problems. Unfortunately when I run QGIS it still insists it cannot find a working OpenCL implementation. In running clinfo, both Clover and RustiCL report back, and one of them - probably Clover - barfs out the following message:

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=== CL_PROGRAM_BUILD_LOG ===
fatal error: cannot open file '/usr/lib64/clc/gfx1032-amdgcn-mesa-mesa3d.bc': No such file or directory

I've determined that the compute kernel it's hunting for is not present, and looking for it online has been fruitless. I am not willing to create a symlink to point to something else, that sounds like an invitation to instability at best. The complete output from running RUSTICL_ENABLE=radeonsi > output.txt is here. It would be really nice if I could use my RX 6600 for something new. Anybody else gotten RustiCL working yet?