On 6/5/20 8:15 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 10:50 PM Rui Salvaterra wrote:
>>
>> Hi, Adrian,
>>
>> A quinta, 4/06/2020, 21:17, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
>> escreveu:
>>>
>>>
>>> We should revert to 4k pages on ppc64be then. There is no reason to enable
>>> 64k pages for
Hello!
On 5 June 2020, 08:37, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> I would like to switch the ppc64 kernel back to 4k pages. The majority
> of our users are people on G5 Macs anyway, so I don't see a point
> in using 64k pages.
If someone was using btrfs, it might not work, at least I have hit
Hi Ben!
> I'm sorry this is still unresolved. I have a couple of questions:
>
> * How will people discover this and know that they should use it? If
> the installer is still being updated for ppc64, shouldn't we select
> this kernel automatically when an Nvidia PCI device is detected?
>
> *
On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 10:50 PM Rui Salvaterra wrote:
>
> Hi, Adrian,
>
> A quinta, 4/06/2020, 21:17, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> escreveu:
>>
>>
>> We should revert to 4k pages on ppc64be then. There is no reason to enable
>> 64k pages for us. That may be well the case for ppc64el though.
>
>
On 6/5/20 9:40 AM, Linux User #330250 wrote:
> If someone was using btrfs, it might not work, at least I have hit this
> issue back in 2016. Maybe they already fixed btrfs, but on my Power Mac
> G5 with Nvidia GPU, I had to use a pagesize of 4k in order for nouveau
> to work, but since I had
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz writes:
> Hi!
>
> On 5/17/20 12:33 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> On 4/19/20 11:35 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>>> The following three patches are required to get ofpathname to return
>>> proper OF paths on Apple Power Macs.
>>
>> Any chance someone
On 5 June 2020, 11:21, Romain Dolbeau wrote:
> On the subject of page size - 64 KiB makes a lot more sense than 4 KiB
> when you have gigabytes of memory. The fact that x86-64 is stuck with
> the page size of a 80386 with 4 MiB of RAM doesn't mean everyone
> should be... And 64 KiB should gain
Le ven. 5 juin 2020 à 09:41, Linux User #330250
a écrit :
> Because: why not use btrfs on a 64-Bit PowerPC, right?
Well, ZFS works fine on PPC64 (and PPC!) and 'someone' even
contributed AltiVec acceleration for the RAID-Z algorithms :-) [in all
fairness, I haven't tried ZFS Root on PPC64, only
Hi!
On 5/17/20 12:33 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 4/19/20 11:35 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> The following three patches are required to get ofpathname to return
>> proper OF paths on Apple Power Macs.
>
> Any chance someone could have a look at this?
Gentle ping.
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On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 08:37:02AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> I would like to switch the ppc64 kernel back to 4k pages. The majority
> of our users are people on G5 Macs anyway, so I don't see a point
> in using 64k pages.
>
> Anyone with a large modern POWER machine is going to
On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 03:08:55PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Is POWER5 still supported by the Linux kernel? I thought IBM removed a
> bunch of older machines but kept PowerPC 970 support.
4.17 dropped power4. power5 and up are still supported just fine.
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Len Sorensen
On 6/5/20 3:03 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>> Anyone with a large modern POWER machine is going to run the ppc64el
>> port anyway.
>
> Only power8 and newer can run ppc64el, so all power 5, 6 and 7 users
> would still need to run be. But there are probably a lot less than of
> G5 users. And
On 6/5/20 4:15 PM, Nathan Lynch wrote:
> John Paul Adrian Glaubitz writes:
>> Hi!
>>
>> On 5/17/20 12:33 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>>> On 4/19/20 11:35 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
The following three patches are required to get ofpathname to return
proper OF paths on
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