John, On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 10:34 PM John Ogness <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Mathieu, > > On 2021-10-07, Mathieu Malaterre <[email protected]> wrote: > > One of the kernel maintainers is wondering if the nouveau driver is > > completely broken with 64K pages ? > > > > So my question is simply: is anyone out there using a ppc64 system > > with nouveau on a default linux-image-powerpc64 debian system (64K > > page). I am only interested in ppc64be system only. > > My main desktop machine at home is a PowerMac G5 (Dual PPC970, > PowerMac7,2), so it gets lots of daily use for audio, video, and web > browsing. The graphic card is: > > 0000:f0:10.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX > 5200 Ultra] (rev a1)
Thanks for your report ! In case you have not seen it before, this is known as: * https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=790690 It is unlikely that the root issue will ever be solved, so we need to provide a 4K page kernel for the affected users. As you've seen from another user report, it appears that nouveau may work under certain work load: * https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2021/10/msg00068.html -M
