On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 10:46 AM Mathieu Malaterre <ma...@debian.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 4:31 AM Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> 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 is possible/acceptable ? The new > > > ppc64 kernel would not be the default but could be installed on G5 > > > machine after installation. > > > > 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? > > Adrian, do you believe d-i could do that ? > > > * 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? > > I think the issue is nicely summarized by Benjamin Herrenschmidt here: > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-nouveau/-/issues/258#note_352667 > > > 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.
We've got at least one working nouveau/ppc64 configuration: * https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2021/10/msg00068.html
