Bug#790694: PPC64: 64kb kernel pagesizes and nouveau

2017-06-15 Thread Vincent Pelletier
Hello, nouveau still does not support 64k pages, so I believe this bug is still current. It may not be the only one active on PPC64BE though: having built a vanilla 4.11.5 using debian's 4.11 config and changing to 4k pages is sadly not enough to make X work on a Powermac G5 ("late 2005" model)

Bug#790694: PPC64: 64kb kernel pagesizes and nouveau

2016-04-04 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Bastian, On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 11:18 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On 2016-03-30 16:45, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> On Wed, 2016-03-30 at 16:49 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> > Ben, >> > >> > > >> > > I saw that bug report as well. I'm not sure what to do about it - >> > >

Bug#790694: PPC64: 64kb kernel pagesizes and nouveau

2016-03-30 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On 2016-03-30 16:45, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Wed, 2016-03-30 at 16:49 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > Ben, > > > > > > > > I saw that bug report as well.  I'm not sure what to do about it - > > > other distributions were also using 64K pages for 64-bit PowerPC the > > > last time I looked,

Bug#790694: PPC64: 64kb kernel pagesizes and nouveau

2016-03-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2016-03-30 at 16:49 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Ben, > > > > > I saw that bug report as well.  I'm not sure what to do about it - > > other distributions were also using 64K pages for 64-bit PowerPC the > > last time I looked, and there may be good reasons to do that. > Would it be

Bug#790694: PPC64: 64kb kernel pagesizes and nouveau

2016-03-30 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Ben, > I saw that bug report as well. I'm not sure what to do about it - > other distributions were also using 64K pages for 64-bit PowerPC the > last time I looked, and there may be good reasons to do that. Would it be possible for you to dig that for us ? It appears that making nouveau work