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Re: Debian PPC64le GFX driver situation
unsubcribe On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Carlos wrote: > Hello Adrian, > > thank you for your feedback. > > Let’s hope Raptor will be successfully ;-) > I googled a little bit around and found a Phoronix article about the Talos > POWER8. > He mentioned to use older Kepler cards (nVidia) or AMD cards. > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=talos-workstation&num=1 > > The POWER9 system uses a AMD Polaris 10 XT. I hope a Polaris 12 XT will > work also. > OpenCL is supported also on PPC64el, I think. I found downloads on the IBM > page. > > Best regards > > > > Am 14.08.2017 um 20:41 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < > glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de>: > > > > On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 11:42:11AM +0200, Carlos wrote: > >> I would like to ask about the driver situation regarding PPC64le. > >> Which one is to prefer? AMD or nVidia? > > > > You should actually elaborate a bit more what you are planning to do > > with the graphcis hardware. On POWER8, people usually use such > > graphics card to perform numerical calculations and for these > > purposes, nVidia boards are usually the preferred choice as there is > > very good upstream support for them. You can actually buy POWER8 > > servers from IBM which come with nVidia hardware preinstalled [1]. > > > > The nVidia graphics drivers for "ppc64el" are currently not packaged > > in Debian [2], but there are current drivers available upstream [3]. I > > have no ideas though whether those will actually also work with normal > > GeForce boards, those might be Tesla-only at the moment. > > > > I assume that nVidia would release GeForce drivers for POWER8 if there > > were any POWER8-based workstations like the Talos available in larger > > quantities. > > > > Adrian > > > >> [1] https://www.ibm.com/blogs/systems/ibm-nvidia-present- > nvlink-server-youve-waiting/ > >> [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=832899 > >> [3] http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/122816/en-us > > > > -- > > .''`. 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 > >
Re: New discussion: ppc64 installer -- ext2 /boot partition to keep sabot happy.
unsubscribe On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 10:32 PM, Lennart Sorensen < lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 08:40:13PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Ok, so I guess the first step would be to patch partman-auto to increase > > the size of the bootloader partition for all sub-architectures. > > > > Question: Does GRUB work on all the PowerPC variants that Yaboot > supports? > > Well I think it supports only ieee1275 machines, aka those with > openfirmware. > > > According to [1], Yaboot supports: > > > > - Mac Newworld, CHRP, CHRP/RS6000, CHRP_IBM and Cell. > > Well at least my understanding is that the newworld machines, the IBM > cell machines, and the IBM power machines should all be openfirmware, > and hence should work with grub. > > > Are these all supported by GRUB? If yes, the transition won't break > > anything. I don't know what platforms like Oldworld use though. I assume > > they are booted from Penguin from MacOS? > > Do oldworld still use QUIK? > > > So, do we all agree that the first thing is to increase the size of the > > bootloader partitions for the aforementioned systems? > > I saw in centos's documentation that for IBM i and p series they say > the PReP boot partition should be 4 to 8MB and never over 10MB. > > The HFS boot size changes certainly sound sensible. > > -- > Len Sorensen > >
