Re: Poll: Is anyone using nouveau driver on ppc64 system?
I have a related question: instead of us breaking what is working by updating the kernel regularly, why don't we find a good working kernel version and move on only when we can match that in terms of functionality? Is there some "requirement" to always feature the latest kernel?
Thomas Grzybowski
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On Thursday, October 7th, 2021 at 10:25 AM, Linux User #330250 <linuxuser330250@gmx.net> wrote:
> Mathieu Malaterre wrote on 07th of October 2021, 11:05 CEST:
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> > Hi all,
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> > One of the kernel maintainers is wondering if the nouveau driver is
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> > completely broken with 64K pages ?
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> > So my question is simply: is anyone out there using a ppc64 system
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> > with nouveau on a default linux-image-powerpc64 debian system (64K
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> > page). I am only interested in ppc64be system only.
> >
> > Thanks for your time,
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> Last I tried to setup my Power Mac G5 (PowerMac11,2) I was using
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> nouveau. The driver worked, but that was 1+ year ago. I hit a massive
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> problem and, at the time, stopped due to lack of time. I was going to
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> revive the Power Mac this summer, but again couldn't find the time. I
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> will however try again next year.
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> I didn't run Debian on it, but Gentoo. I noticed a problem with newer
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> kernel versions (was it >5.4?), but couldn't investigate any further. Sorry.
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> One problem I had was that switching to/from 64k pages is impossible
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> when one uses btrfs (which I want to use), because the page size
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> determines the data structures, making it impossible to access the
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> filesystem when changing it later-on.
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> If I remember correctly, nouveau always had issues with 64k pages...
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> (And I couldn't try it with 4k pages due to the btrfs issue...)
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> Linux User #330250
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