On 09/02/2021 00:29, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 10:58 PM Daniel Pocock daniel@pocock.pro wrote:
I acquired a Talos II (dual POWER9) system in 2020. I've tried to share feedback (e.g. the 4k page size change[1]) that will help other people become productive ex-x86.
interesting: void linux OpenPOWER FOSDEM talk they said they compile for 4k pages.
I sincerely hope we can allow people to try both page sizes and gradually eliminate bugs on 64k
But I suspect that many people will simply refuse to even start using these systems if so many things are broken on day one so the main distributions need 4k.
I've indicated that I would be willing to put more time into non-x86 architectures if there is funding and hardware available.
well there are five teams all cut off from modern distros at the moment, if you count the PPC Notebook effort (using Quorl v2.08 which also does not have VSX). Roberto's team *might* be able to use https://www.powerel.org/
At the moment I only have one workstation which I use for a range of different things. It would be hard for me to change the OS but I can run other OSs in a VM.
I'd like to work up to 4 or 5 of these systems so I will have one that is stable and others for testing, then I can reboot them at will using different Linux and OpenBSD environments.
to be honest i wasn't expecting (hadn't planned) a task of this magnitude (gcc triplet, libc6 port, linux kernel port) into the various budgets i'd applied for NLnet Grants for. i'm going to have to think how to work that out. in the meantime we might be able to use this https://wiki.debian.org/PPC64 which is 64-bit BE and ELF v1.
daniel, let's talk off the ppc fedora list, can you possibly join freenode #libre-soc?
It is easier for me to schedule a call in Jitsi Meet, maybe late next week, I try to avoid logging in to IRC, too many people appear with questions each time I log in now.