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| + | |[https://www.adelielinux.org/ Adélie] | ||
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| + | |[[User:Awilfox|awilfox]] | ||
| + | |Needs the easy-kernel-power8 package instead of easy-kernel. KDE 5 is stable. | ||
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|[https://alpinelinux.org/ Alpine] | |[https://alpinelinux.org/ Alpine] | ||
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|[[User:Tle|Tle]] | |[[User:Tle|Tle]] | ||
|Needs internet connection for the setup-alpine to fetch grub-ieee1275 and sfdisk. Let's hope the next version would include these two packages in the ISO. I have lodged a [https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/issues/11384 request] | |Needs internet connection for the setup-alpine to fetch grub-ieee1275 and sfdisk. Let's hope the next version would include these two packages in the ISO. I have lodged a [https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/issues/11384 request] | ||
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|[https://www.centos.org/ CentOS] | |[https://www.centos.org/ CentOS] | ||
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Rapid progress is being made on these ports by members of the community. | Rapid progress is being made on these ports by members of the community. | ||
| + | * GuixSD ([[User:Isengaara|Isengaara]]) | ||
* NixOS (@crystalgamma:matrix.org on Matrix) | * NixOS (@crystalgamma:matrix.org on Matrix) | ||
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== External Links == | == External Links == | ||
Revision as of 06:54, 16 November 2020
Not everything is bug-free, so you might want to the check also Fixes in Progress about the state of their upstreaming.
GNU/Linux
| Distribution | Version | Architecture | Reported by | Notes |
| Adélie | 1.0-beta1 | ppc64 | awilfox | Needs the easy-kernel-power8 package instead of easy-kernel. KDE 5 is stable. |
| Alpine | 3.11.5 | ppc64le | Tle | Needs internet connection for the setup-alpine to fetch grub-ieee1275 and sfdisk. Let's hope the next version would include these two packages in the ISO. I have lodged a request |
| CentOS | 7.7 | ppc64le | MPC7500 | Works OOTB. I only needed the snippets for the AST GPU |
| Debian | 10 (2018-05-28 weekly DVD ISO) | ppc64le | JeremyRand | Seems to work fine. KDE crashes occasionally, but that might be unrelated to running it on POWER9. Works fine as a KVM host via virt-manager (tested with Debian 10 as the guest). Be warned that the installer will enable the contrib repos (without your knowledge or consent), which is bad from a software freedom standpoint. |
| 10 | ppc64 | awilfox | Only tested in KVM-PV. Using Adélie easy-kernel as kernel, Debian Buster userland. | |
| 9.9.0 | ppc64le | MPC7500 | Works OOTB. I only needed the snippets for the AST GPU | |
| 9.5.0 | ppc64le (inside KVM; machine type = pseries) | JeremyRand | Seems to work fine with KDE. Default version of Linux works fine. Be warned that the installer will enable the contrib repos (without your knowledge or consent), which is bad from a software freedom standpoint. However, running dpkg-query -W -f='${Section}\t${Package}\n' | grep ^contrib (see this Stack Exchange answer) suggests that no actual packages from the contrib repos are installed by default, so you should be able to disable the contrib repos after installation without ever being exposed to contrib-packaged software.
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| 9 | ppc64le | nashimus | Requires 4.16 or newer kernel. Installed Debian testing net install, set apt sources to Debian stable and downgraded, keeping 4.16 kernel. Most VMs failed to boot before updating qemu to 2.12.0. | |
| Fedora | 32 | ppc64le | Tle | Server variant works perfectly!
The Workstation Live variant failed to load kernel image at Petitboot prompt, the workaround is to change kernel/initrd paths before booting to be /ppc/ppc64/{vmlinuz,initrd.img} instead of /ppc/ppc |
| 31 | ppc64le | MPC7500 | Works. I only needed the snippets for the AST GPU. When installing GNOME (workstation-product-environment) you have to do this modification | |
| 30 | ppc64le | MPC7500 | Works OOTB. I only needed the snippets for the AST GPU | |
| 28 | ppc64le | Sharkcz | only bare metal verified for now, you might want to enable SharkCZ's COPR repo for not-yet-upstreamed updates | |
| nashimus | May need to manually specify inst.stage2, during install. Workaround Bug | |||
| ppc64 | Sharkcz | discontinued in Fedora 29 | ||
| Gentoo | n/a | ppc64le | luke-jr | Once installed, works fine. |
| 17.0 | ppc64 | MarcusC | XFCE4 and virt-manager verified | |
| openSUSE | Leap 15.1 | ppc64le | MPC7500 | Works OOTB. I only needed the snippets for the AST GPU |
| Tumbleweed 20190805 | ppc64le | Jonsger | Install via serial console (over ssh) and connect HDMI to dedicated GPU. Use Xorg config from Troubleshooting/GPU#Step_2:_Create_Xorg_Configuration_Snippet. radeonsi is missing, as Mesa-dri is not build for ppc64le. Workaround: install from home:jbrielmaier:ppc64le repo. | |
| Ubuntu Server | 19.10 (kernel 5.3.x) | ppc64le | FlyingBlackbird | Works OOTB with Gnome (installed via sudo tasksel choosing Ubuntu Desktop) and a single SATA HDD. I only needed to configure Xorg for a FullHD resolution of the AST GPU as described in Troubleshooting/GPU#Display_stuck_at_default_low_resolution_with_AST_HDMI_GPU. Note that NVMe SSDs may crash when a manual or scheduled discard ("trim") is started (due to a kernel bug fixed in 5.4 but there is a work-around, see POWER9 Hardware Compatibility List/PCIe Devices#NVMe_Drives. So far a combination of a NVMe SSD and SATA HDD makes troubles if both drives are used for OS installation targets with booting from HDD causes ATA error messages (I am investigating this, see the up-to-date status of my system configuration).
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| 19.04 | ppc64le | MPC7500 | Works OOTB. I only needed the snippets for the AST GPU | |
| 18.10 | ppc64le | q66 | Installs and works out of box with no changes, Xfce4. | |
| Void Linux for Power Architecture | n/a | ppc64le/ppc64/ppc | q66 | Staging fork of Void Linux (custom binary repository and infrastructure, merging changes back upstream), fully functional, both endians, glibc or musl, 64-bit or 32-bit (32-bit works on Talos with 64-bit kernel or in a VM) |
| Whonix (clearnet link) | 15 | ppc64le | JeremyRand | Appears to work fine with KDE (both Gateway and Workstation) when the Whonix instructions are followed; host OS used for testing was Debian 10. Haven't tried XFCE and CLI. |
| 14 | ppc64le | JeremyRand | Appears to work fine when the Whonix instructions are followed; host OS used for testing was Debian 10. (UPDATE: Whonix 14 is no longer recommended by upstream for KVM; use Whonix 15 instead.) | |
| 14 | amd64 | JeremyRand | Appears to boot without errors when the Whonix/x86 instructions are followed; host OS used for testing was Debian 10. Didn't test anything beyond showing the XFCE GUI. |
BSDs
| Distribution | Version | Architecture | Reported by | Notes |
| FreeBSD | 12.0 | ppc64 | kev009 | Contains initial POWER9 support |
| 13-CURRENT | ppc64 | kev009 | Ongoing development activity, better than releases for the time being | |
| OpenBSD | 6.8 | powerpc64 | DanielPocock | Official support since OpenBSD 6.8 |
| POWER9BSD | 13-CURRENT | ppc64 | kev009 | Advance POWER9 features for FreeBSD like Radix MMU, amdgpu etc |
Ports in progress
Rapid progress is being made on these ports by members of the community.
- GuixSD (Isengaara)
- NixOS (@crystalgamma:matrix.org on Matrix)
External Links
- Operating Systems for PowerPC PPC32be / PPC64be / PPC64le
