On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 09:22:44AM +0200, gianluca wrote: > In this case during install it should be possible to use nouveaufb instead > of nouveau. It is a minor issue and during install I clearly see no > performance penalty. > > Nope. It looks like to say to people: your server which is running fine > until now, from now on it is slow, crappy and old, or change the video card. > > It is NOT as simple as in the PC x86 World where the VGA Bios is running > fine. In the powerpc (Apple) world at least ONE GRAPHIC CARD has to be > OpenFirmware based just to initialize and continue to boot. > > In my case I have a Quad G5 Apple with FCode card (OpenFirmware NVIDIA 6600 > Card made for Apple by NVIDIA) and a VGA-Bios based ATI Radeon HD4370. Both > are working in linux debian unstable with 4.5.0-trunk kernel using: > radeon.modeset=1 radeon.agpmode=-1 nouveau.modeset=1 during boot in kernel > cmd line. > > During first boot I can see output only on the FCode NVIDIA Card, but during > booting systemd I can switch both outputs and Xorg is working in Xinerama > configuration so it uses radeon driver and nouveau driver. I don't know > about kernel pages. Tomorrow I will check. > > To my point of view the 4K-pages should be enabled in a POWERPC64 APPLE > configuration and 64k-pages are to be enabled in a POWERPC64 NON-APPLE > configuration. I think this will solve the issue on the NVidia nouveau code. > Obvioulsy on non-APPLE POWERPC64 machines, the gpu for nouveau it will not > available at all. > > But I think on the IBM Side their Power6/Power7 machines are NOT using any > graphic card at all, so this should be a no-problem for them.
Our IBM p520 power6 box has this: 0004:02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd. Millennium G550 (rev 01) No idea if it works in linux, we don't use it. > Can anybody confirm that? I can't remember if there was graphics on the p710 (ours blew the VRM a few weeks ago and the replacement is a week away). I don't think it has graphics by default. -- Len Sorensen
