Re: Bug#826796: Request for a new: linux-image-powerpc64-4K
Hi Ben!
> 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?
>From what I have read in the upstream bug tracker discussion, fixing
this seems non-trivial as even the proprietary driver is using a hack
to address this problem [1].
> In any case, if nouveau is completely broken with 64K pages then we
> should make sure nouveau is disabled in our default ppc64
> configuration.
I would like to switch the ppc64 kernel back to 4k pages. The majority
of our users are people on G5 Macs anyway, so I don't see a point
in using 64k pages.
Anyone with a large modern POWER machine is going to run the ppc64el
port anyway.
Adrian
> [1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-nouveau/-/issues/258
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