Good work peeps!
Thatās the Github of the void-power org. My personal one is https://github.com/stenstorp
Keep in mind, these are UNOFFICIAL, not supported by Void Linux maintainers.
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If you are going to post OS ISOs to generic filehosting sites, you should probably include the SHA256 hashes here so that we can be sure weāre downloading what you uploaded.
technically Wendell could modify the hashes, but to do anything useful, heād need to be conspiring with Mega
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That is in the hands of the sten.
void-live-ppc-4.19.44_1-20190524.iso sha256sum: 1eed858b0f3140f88ce328455ba97f9b2d70b856dca2d922c48b033c21633d19
void-live-ppc64-4.19.44_1-20190524.iso sha256sum:
5ed31c304b2ab352722b97c1b0052e6066bc5b470ce7e8761e36d2a1086f94e3
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āOfficialā ISOs are now available from https://void-power.octaforge.org/live/current/ for ppc, ppc64, ppc64le and musl variants for each.
Technically unofficial since they rely on an unofficial package repository for PPC packages but itās the best weāve got until Void officially packages for PPC.
Note: not all packages are available from that repo just yet, compiling an entire repository takes a while 
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I demand official recognition :U
Jackmanās at devs
Iām making that a verb now.
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Well the facebook post I made absolutely blew up.
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actual owner of the void-power organization here
mfw thereās people using my shit and i donāt even know about it
at least be visible, so that i know i donāt do it just for myself and a total of 3.5 other people
there probably wonāt be any official packages for a while and once there are theyāll be done using my Talos 2 which I plan to eventually hook into the Void infra, but probably not before Voidās builder infra is rewritten, because buildbot is clearly inadequate
on the positive side, my org tracks upstream as closely as possible and and iām in close contact with the Void devs (and pullmoll, whoās also contributing in void-power is a core Void committer) and thus about the only thing thatās really missing is automatic ppc CI for void-packages (though Iāll probably have my own once I automate the infra)
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Woah.
Hello there.
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Sorry, weāre half organized here xD
Anyways hello
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also, there will be a fresh batch of images again this weekend, with more rewrites in the installer based on experiences from running on ārealā old ppc potatoes (I only own POWER8 and POWER9 machines so all my initial observations were made based on emulating mac99/newworld and ibm pseries in qemu, some of those were later found to be not entirely correct)
it wonāt be necessary to manually format/mount the bootstrap partition anymore, separate /boot partition will newly be supported, GRUB installation is error-checked correctly (as the nvram update step is now moved out of the grub-install command itself, so when that fails at least the rest can be handled gracefully), dialog now correctly renders spaces on big endian (patched in Void upstream), os-prober will function better, and partition table specifically for macs will correctly refresh after repartitioning so installer wonāt show outdated entries, and a bunch of other things i might have forgotten
also got a big endian builder VM up (for all 18 POWER9 cores + SMT2 and like, 48GB RAM) so maybe that package set can finally start expanding (the main reason thereās way more little endian packages is that I like to limit the amount of stuff I crosscompile to a minimum, native is always better)ā¦
sadly, until i have a replacement desktop system (which will probably be an 8-core Blackbird), this Talos has to stay my daily driver, so it cannot be dedicated to 24/7 building operation just yetā¦ I have some POWER8 machines but KVM support is poor on those (requires disabling SMT, which is a big performance hit) and some of the RAM recently died in one of them
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Because Iām a 3 year old about this shit
Can I see it?
Honestly, its so cool that you have a real system. Hopefully I can get one inā¦ well a while. More interest in the Amiga X5000 atm, even though I know the power difference.
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X5000 wonāt run 64-bit Void because it lacks altivec (itās a bit of a weird embedded SoC, was never actually intended for desktops), so 32-bit userland + 64-bit kernel only (unless you feel like recompiling everything with altivec off)
X1000 might, because the PA6T CPU in that actually does have altivecā¦
since altivec was already present in a G5 back in like, 2003, disabling it was considered too much of a sacrifice, considering it would cripple the performance of everything that does have altivec, which is most hardware people are likely to use it on
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I worship a new god now
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Iāve not been this excited about PPC in a while.
This is cool.
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Probably should have let you know about this place before 
welcome anyway!
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To schimanek, no Iām not pollmoll.
Can confirm. Definitely not.
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I was thinking if the PowerPC Notebook project might have the same problem, but they say the T208X CPU (e6500 core) theyāre planning to use does have Altivec, despite also being a āweird embedded SoCā.
Maybe Freescale/NXP learned their lesson with e5500 (supposedly the core that X5000 is using) that all CPUs need SIMD?
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