Dnia Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 10:16:26PM +0100, Daniel Pocock napisał(a):
On 12/02/2021 21:19, Justin Forbes wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 10:21 AM Ben Cotton <bcotton(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Power4kPageSize
>>
>> == Summary ==
>>
>> On ppc64le, the kernel is currently compiled for 64k page size.
>>
>> This change proposes using the more common 4k page size.
>>
>> Some things, like the AMD Radeon GPU drivers, firmware or related
>> code, appear to be completely non-functional on the 64k page size.
>> Insufficient upstream developers are testing such issues on this
>> architecture.
>
> Just as there are many things that expect the 64K page size. I am not
> doing this.
>
> Justin
Can you please identify some of the things that expect 64k?
If the GPU drivers don't work that makes it a complete non-starter for
many workstation users, or they have to compile their own kernels or
obtain custom kernels from another user.
Or just fix the GPU drivers. They're open source, after all.
--
Tomasz Torcz “(…) today's high-end is tomorrow's embedded processor.”
tomek(a)pipebreaker.pl — Mitchell Blank on LKML