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



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 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.

I am not a powerpc porter; Aurelien Jarno is the kernel maintainer
responsible for it.

I don't know about the user base, but I think most of the *development*
effort and sponsorship of the powerpc ports now comes from IBM, and
unfortunately they don't care about PowerMacs.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Tomorrow will be cancelled due to lack of interest.

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