On Tue, 2020-04-21 at 11:26 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Dear Debian-kernel team, > > > Would it be possible to ship an alternate ppc64 kernel build without > > the 64K page option ? > > Could someone please clarify if this is possible/acceptable ? The new > ppc64 kernel would not be the default but could be installed on G5 > machine after installation. 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? * Has anyone talked to the nouveau developers recently about either (a) fixing support for larger pages or (b) fixing the dependencies for the driver so it can't be built in an unsupported configuration? In any case, if nouveau is completely broken with 64K pages then we should make sure nouveau is disabled in our default ppc64 configuration. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.
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