Bug#826796: Request for a new: linux-image-powerpc64-4K
On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 10:46 AM Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org> wrote:
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> On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 4:31 AM Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
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> > 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?
>
> Adrian, do you believe d-i could do that ?
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> > * 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?
>
> I think the issue is nicely summarized by Benjamin Herrenschmidt here:
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-nouveau/-/issues/258#note_352667
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> > In any case, if nouveau is completely broken with 64K pages then we
> > should make sure nouveau is disabled in our default ppc64
> > configuration.
>
> True, but the only complaints I hear on debian-powerpc is from people on G5.
We've got at least one working nouveau/ppc64 configuration:
* https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2021/10/msg00068.html
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