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? > > * 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?
>From what I have read in the upstream bug tracker discussion, fixing this seems non-trivial as even the proprietary driver is using a hack to address this problem [1]. > In any case, if nouveau is completely broken with 64K pages then we > should make sure nouveau is disabled in our default ppc64 > configuration. 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 run the ppc64el port anyway. Adrian > [1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-nouveau/-/issues/258 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
