Daniel Pocock wrote on 2/22/21 10:41 AM:
> I feel that you underestimate the impact of the GPU driver issue
>
> If the GPU driver doesn't work, people can't even log in and get started
>
> If the GPU vendors don't test their code on ppc64le (and aarch64) then
> those platforms will always lag behind x86.  Users will experience
> issues that have been fixed in the development phase for x86.
>
> Personally, I'm not opposed to the 64k page size in principle: my
> concerns are about the practical issues.
>
> If both 4k and 64k can be supported, if users can choose between
> installers for either page size, then the severity of the issue is reduced

How practical/impractical would it be to simply compile the ppc64le
kernel for both page sizes, and then add a boot entry to GRUB for 4k
page sizes, which is not the default.

Another option could be an official ppc64le-4K Fedora Spin.
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