Re: G5 Video issue
On 6/5/20 8:15 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 10:50 PM Rui Salvaterra <rsalvaterra@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi, Adrian,
>>
>> A quinta, 4/06/2020, 21:17, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> escreveu:
>>>
>>>
>>> We should revert to 4k pages on ppc64be then. There is no reason to enable
>>> 64k pages for us. That may be well the case for ppc64el though.
>>
>>
>> To be honest, I believe there should be two ppc64 kernel flavours. 4 kiB pages for smaller, mostly desktop systems (say, Power Mac G5 and IBM IntelliStation systems) and 64 kiB for bigger iron. Would that be feasible?
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=826796
Let's just switch back to 4k pages. All the hassle is not worth the little
gain.
Anyone with big iron is going to run the little-endian port anyway. I will
open a pull request over the weekend to revert the 64k change for ppc64.
Adrian
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