Bug#790694: PPC64: 64kb kernel pagesizes and nouveau
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 with 64K page is non-trivial:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94757#c3
Which in turns means most of the userbase with PPC64 (G5 PowerMac)
wont be able to use X.
Thanks for your time,
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