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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