stan Firefox works on powerpc it just has no JIT but with the beast that the machine is, it does not bother browsing that much if you have NoScript installed. On the other hand, Chromium just works and has JIT, it just is not upstreamed yet because Google wont accept/review the patches for what it appears to be a political de-prioritization. Someone maintains an ungoogled-chromium ppc fork at https://gitlab.com/lle-bout/ungoogled-chromium
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Originally posted by stan View PostThe specs look great! All the things that one can do with 128 GB max ram! However, it's a bummer than no web browser (Firefox or Chromium) works on PowerPC. Several bugs in Firefox have been open for almost a year:
Is there no-one smart enough to fix these handful of bugs? I mean come on, this should be a walk in the park for the chip maker IBM or its subsidiary, Red Hat!
If you need to, you can build Firefox Nightly on it: https://www.talospace.com/2019/05/fi...-on-power.html
Instructions for building are on the bottom of the wiki page you linked to.
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Originally posted by hiryu View PostAccording to people I've spoken to on #talos-workstation running BE, they are using older GPU's successfully on BE.
The GPU side no matter the age of ATI/AMD cards is always little endian.
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Originally posted by hiryu View PostUnrelated note: When will my BlackBird pre-order ship?!
I've been looking forward to running on something that doesn't have a bunch of firmware they hold closed to themselves and to more PPC for a long time, and it's almost here . . . I hope.
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Originally posted by andyprough View Post
You sure it doesn't have any web browsers? Because Fedora, openSUSE, & Debian have entire distros for it.
If you need to, you can build Firefox Nightly on it: https://www.talospace.com/2019/05/fi...-on-power.html
Instructions for building are on the bottom of the wiki page you linked to.
BTW: Is the USB 3 (XHCI) firmware really open source in the Blackbird and Talos systems? I thought that was a roadblock for Coreboot, because unlike USB 1 and 2, the controller itself has firmware running on it in USB 3.Last edited by stan; 29 May 2019, 02:31 AM.
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Originally posted by stan View PostThanks for the link! I'm glad Firefox is working and there are multiple distros already working on the Rapot Blackbird and Talos computers.
RHEL, SLES and Ubuntu do support modern Power systems. Then again I don't know how well-tested and working are programs that aren't used on a server.
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Originally posted by stan View PostBTW: Is the USB 3 (XHCI) firmware really open source in the Blackbird and Talos systems?
from the datasheet https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/sllse76m/sllse76m.pdf
Requires No External Flash for Default Configuration
– Optional Serial EEPROM for Custom ConfigurationLast edited by starshipeleven; 29 May 2019, 03:47 AM.
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I'm waiting for mine, but I have something to ask in the meantime: could you please test with both the mitigations on and off?
I've heard that Talos has stricter defaults than x86 which could impact performance harder.## VGA ##
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For those asking about browsers, they exist but will not play certain media types due to lack of PPC support for certain codecs.
Talos has been working with IBM on getting Chromium ported with codec support. See the Talos website for details.
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