The POWER and PowerPC General Discussion / News Thread

Would like to see some L2N overclocking or even just water chiller to see if lowering temps could let you jack clocks up
That’s probably not a thing, but that’s why I want to see it

Its a thitg, but you also have to use jumper wires most of the time. Potentially you could change shit in ofw, but thats way down the line atm, at least for me and sink.

I’m gunna have sink source me an 11,2 and send her 2 kr’kens and a 1600W plat/titanium psu to replace the flatbed 800w psu. Then when I get it I’ll pop the floor out and make a custom drive cage, drop in a SAS and SATA card, and voila. Should be more than enough to do modern stuff and have lots of room for playing with clocks was my point.

http://hpc.sourceforge.net/index2.php

So this is cool. Anyone wanna collide galaxies?

On boot, really? That’s awesome; any reason why they didn’t just detect faulty cores in the factory and disable them during production?

Same reason that intel sells i3’s that are severely broken i7’s I’d think.

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https://www.xenonwiki.com/Main_Page

Neat readup.

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They were trying to meet demand and really discovered the issue after they ramped up production.

And doing it at boot up was cheaper than lasering the SPE off in the factoring.

It was a more effective means anyway. When the yield became better, they could use the same code on app PS3 variants.

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ok grub not the issue can get other distros installed ram is fine have tested.
what info do you need ?

Like I said try SLOF maybe oB has some weirdness from SLOF in it.

not sure what that means but if that means “i haven’t tested grub but other distros work fine so it’s fine” then that literally does not matter since 1) other distros don’t ship ELFv2 kernels 2) other distros don’t ship recent 5.2 kernels

if the void live iso was able to boot and the installed system does not with yaboot then i have no choice but to suspect yaboot since the latest live iso uses the identical 5.2.11 kernel, and uses grub

(fwiw, i have a PowerMac11,2 with Void installed on it and latest kernel and it boots and works fine, with grub obviously)

Yaboot was a partial experiment. GRUB had been attempted before but there was suspicion of a bad ram chip.

ok how do i see temp sesnors or do none exist on the 970mp

i think the windfarm infra provides them (kinda has to if it wants to do fan control) but they’re not exposed through lm_sensors, you gotta go into sysfs for them

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27.9.18 dropped a few days ago

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Fedora’s now building Workstation and Live ISOs for POWER.

https://pagure.io/pungi-fedora/pull-request/755

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Cool now build ISO’s on the machines that matter and are available.

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Just a heads up. Tried running the recent build of VOID PPC and it does not work with the last stable version of petitboot on the PS3.

I was able to find a version of Red Ribbon but I can’t get to current on debian-ports because locale and a couple of other dependencies are not built in binary form. The kernel just out right will not boot on gentoo.

Time to go to bed. Have to be at work in 8 hours.

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So, due to some life circumstances, I’m looking to sell my Raptor Blackbird (brand new) at cost. I bought during the Black Friday sale back in 2018. If there are any takers, let me know and I’d be happy to make arrangements.

Keep in mind, at current prices per Raptor’s store… You’d save a few hundred bucks.

Or you could not sell it and sell other stuff.

True, but I may actually want to get the upcoming LaGrange based board announced by Raptor. That seems sufficiently more “future proof” in terms of expansion capability.