Bug#826796: Request for a new: linux-image-powerpc64-4K

2021-10-11 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 10:46 AM Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 4:31 AM Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > 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

Bug#826796: Request for a new: linux-image-powerpc64-4K

2021-10-07 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 10/7/21 10:46, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> 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. I will change the

Bug#826796: Request for a new: linux-image-powerpc64-4K

2021-10-07 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 4:31 AM Ben Hutchings wrote: > > 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

Bug#826796: Request for a new: linux-image-powerpc64-4K

2020-06-05 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 03:08:55PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Is POWER5 still supported by the Linux kernel? I thought IBM removed a > bunch of older machines but kept PowerPC 970 support. 4.17 dropped power4. power5 and up are still supported just fine. -- Len Sorensen

Bug#826796: Request for a new: linux-image-powerpc64-4K

2020-06-05 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 08:37:02AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > 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

Bug#826796: Request for a new: linux-image-powerpc64-4K

2020-06-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 6/5/20 3:03 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: >> Anyone with a large modern POWER machine is going to run the ppc64el >> port anyway. > > Only power8 and newer can run ppc64el, so all power 5, 6 and 7 users > would still need to run be. But there are probably a lot less than of > G5 users. And

Bug#826796: Request for a new: linux-image-powerpc64-4K

2020-06-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
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? > > *

Bug#826796: Request for a new: linux-image-powerpc64-4K

2020-04-23 Thread Gianluca Renzi
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 4:33 AM Ben Hutchings wrote: > 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

Bug#826796: Request for a new: linux-image-powerpc64-4K

2020-04-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
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

Bug#826796: Request for a new: linux-image-powerpc64-4K

2020-04-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Mathieu! On 4/21/20 11:26 AM, 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

Bug#826796: Request for a new: linux-image-powerpc64-4K

2020-04-21 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
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. Thanks

Bug#826796: Request for a new: linux-image-powerpc64-4K

2016-06-09 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Package: src:linux Version: 4.6.1-1 Would it be possible to ship an alternate ppc64 kernel build without the 64K page option ? This would allow us to provide a (non-default) ppc64 kernel which would work with old G5 Mac with nvidia card. Currently the situation is described in: