On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 1:53 PM Alex Perez <aperez(a)alexperez.com> wrote:
Daniel Pocock wrote on 2/22/21 10:41 AM:
> I feel that you underestimate the impact of the GPU driver issue
>
> If the GPU driver doesn't work, people can't even log in and get started
>
> If the GPU vendors don't test their code on ppc64le (and aarch64) then
> those platforms will always lag behind x86. Users will experience
> issues that have been fixed in the development phase for x86.
>
> Personally, I'm not opposed to the 64k page size in principle: my
> concerns are about the practical issues.
>
> If both 4k and 64k can be supported, if users can choose between
> installers for either page size, then the severity of the issue is reduced
How practical/impractical would it be to simply compile the ppc64le
kernel for both page sizes, and then add a boot entry to GRUB for 4k
page sizes, which is not the default.
Another option could be an official ppc64le-4K Fedora Spin.
Not practical at all. This is not just a simple matter of building
another flavor of kernel, though even that is a lot to ask, and
honestly, we have turned off flavors that had more users than I expect
ppc64le workstation will have any time soon. But you still have the
issue of writing special casing code for dnf at the very least. To be
a full solution you would also need such code in anaconda and image
building tools.
Justin