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Operating System Compatibility List

2019-09-19T23:29:34Z

Q66: void url update

Not everything is bug-free, so you might want to the check also [[Fixes in Progress]] about the state of their upstreaming.
== GNU/Linux ==
{| class="wikitable"
|Distribution
|Version
|Architecture
|Reported by
|Notes
|-
|[https://www.adelielinux.org/ Adélie]
|1.0-beta1
|ppc64
|[[User:Awilfox|awilfox]]
|Needs the easy-kernel-power8 package instead of easy-kernel. KDE 5 is stable.
|-
|rowspan="4"|[https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ Debian]
|10 (2018-05-28 weekly DVD ISO)
|ppc64le
|[[User:JeremyRand|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
|[[User:Awilfox|awilfox]]
|Only tested in KVM-PV. Using Adélie easy-kernel as kernel, Debian Buster userland.
|-
|9.5.0
|ppc64le (inside KVM; machine type = pseries)
|[[User:JeremyRand|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 <code>dpkg-query -W -f='${Section}\t${Package}\n' | grep ^contrib</code> (see [https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/111102 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.
|-
|9
|ppc64le
|[[User:nashimus|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.
|-
|rowspan="3"|[https://alt.fedoraproject.org/alt/ Fedora]
|rowspan="3"|28
|rowspan="2"|ppc64le
|[[User:Sharkcz|Sharkcz]]
|only bare metal verified for now, you might want to enable [[User:Sharkcz|SharkCZ]]'s COPR [https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/sharkcz/talos/ repo] for not-yet-upstreamed updates
|-
|[[User:nashimus|nashimus]]
|May need to manually specify inst.stage2, during install. [https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/cb4b63c0-e358-474c-8b04-391c3a279d5a/entry/Baremetal_RHEL_Redhat_Installation_with_OPAL?lang=en Workaround] [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1577587 Bug]
|-
|ppc64
|[[User:Sharkcz|Sharkcz]]
|discontinued in Fedora 29
|-
|rowspan="2"|[https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:PPC64 Gentoo]
| n/a
|ppc64le
|[[User:Luke-jr|luke-jr]]
|Once installed, works fine.
|-
|17.0
|ppc64
|[[User:MarcusC|MarcusC]]
|XFCE4 and virt-manager verified
|-
|[https://www.opensuse.org/ openSUSE]
|Tumbleweed 20190805
|ppc64le
|[[User:Jonsger|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 [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:jbrielmaier:ppc64le home:jbrielmaier:ppc64le] repo.
|-
|[https://www.ubuntu.com/download/server/power Ubuntu]
|18.10
|ppc64le
|[[User:q66|q66]]
|Installs and works out of box with no changes, Xfce4.
|-
|[https://voidlinux-ppc.org Void Linux for Power Architecture]
|n/a
|ppc64le/ppc64/ppc
|[[User:q66|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)
|-
|rowspan="3"|[http://dds6qkxpwdeubwucdiaord2xgbbeyds25rbsgr73tbfpqpt4a6vjwsyd.onion/ Whonix] ([https://www.whonix.org/ clearnet link])
|15
|ppc64le
|[[User:JeremyRand|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
|[[User:JeremyRand|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
|[[User:JeremyRand|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 ==
{| class="wikitable"
|Distribution
|Version
|Architecture
|Reported by
|Notes
|-
|rowspan="2"|[https://www.freebsd.org/ FreeBSD]
|12.0
|ppc64
|[[User:kev009|kev009]]
|Contains initial POWER9 support
|-
|13-CURRENT
|ppc64
|[[User:kev009|kev009]]
|Ongoing development activity, better than releases for the time being
|-
|[https://github.com/POWER9BSD/ POWER9BSD]
|13-CURRENT
|ppc64
|[[User:kev009|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.

* NixOS
* GuixSD ([[User:Isengaara|Isengaara]])

== External Links ==

* [http://bgafc.t-hosting.hu/oses4ppc.php Operating Systems for PowerPC] PPC32be / PPC64be / PPC64le

[[Category:Compatibility List]]

Operating System Compatibility List

2019-05-19T16:23:23Z

Q66: update void info

Not everything is bug-free, so you might want to the check also [[Fixes in Progress]] about the state of their upstreaming.
== GNU/Linux ==
{| class="wikitable"
|Distribution
|Version
|Architecture
|Reported by
|Notes
|-
|[https://www.adelielinux.org/ Adélie]
|1.0-beta1
|ppc64
|[[User:Awilfox|awilfox]]
|Needs the easy-kernel-power8 package instead of easy-kernel. KDE 5 is stable.
|-
|rowspan="4"|[https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ Debian]
|10 (2018-05-28 weekly DVD ISO)
|ppc64le
|[[User:JeremyRand|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
|[[User:Awilfox|awilfox]]
|Only tested in KVM-PV. Using Adélie easy-kernel as kernel, Debian Buster userland.
|-
|9.5.0
|ppc64le (inside KVM; machine type = pseries)
|[[User:JeremyRand|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 <code>dpkg-query -W -f='${Section}\t${Package}\n' | grep ^contrib</code> (see [https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/111102 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.
|-
|9
|ppc64le
|[[User:nashimus|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.
|-
|rowspan="3"|[https://alt.fedoraproject.org/alt/ Fedora]
|rowspan="3"|28
|rowspan="2"|ppc64le
|[[User:Sharkcz|Sharkcz]]
|only bare metal verified for now, you might want to enable [[User:Sharkcz|SharkCZ]]'s COPR [https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/sharkcz/talos/ repo] for not-yet-upstreamed updates
|-
|[[User:nashimus|nashimus]]
|May need to manually specify inst.stage2, during install. [https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/cb4b63c0-e358-474c-8b04-391c3a279d5a/entry/Baremetal_RHEL_Redhat_Installation_with_OPAL?lang=en Workaround] [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1577587 Bug]
|-
|ppc64
|[[User:Sharkcz|Sharkcz]]
|discontinued in Fedora 29
|-
|rowspan="2"|[https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:PPC64 Gentoo]
| n/a
|ppc64le
|[[User:Luke-jr|luke-jr]]
|Once installed, works fine.
|-
|17.0
|ppc64
|[[User:MarcusC|MarcusC]]
|XFCE4 and virt-manager verified
|-
|rowspan="3"|[http://dds6qkxpwdeubwucdiaord2xgbbeyds25rbsgr73tbfpqpt4a6vjwsyd.onion/ Whonix] ([https://www.whonix.org/ clearnet link])
|15
|ppc64le
|[[User:JeremyRand|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
|[[User:JeremyRand|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
|[[User:JeremyRand|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.
|-
|[https://www.ubuntu.com/download/server/power Ubuntu]
|18.10
|ppc64le
|[[User:q66|q66]]
|Installs and works out of box with no changes, Xfce4.
|-
|[https://void-power.octaforge.org Void Linux for Power Architecture]
|n/a
|ppc64le/ppc64/ppc
|[[User:q66|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)
|}

== BSDs ==
{| class="wikitable"
|Distribution
|Version
|Architecture
|Reported by
|Notes
|-
|rowspan="2"|[https://www.freebsd.org/ FreeBSD]
|12.0
|ppc64
|[[User:kev009|kev009]]
|Contains initial POWER9 support
|-
|13-CURRENT
|ppc64
|[[User:kev009|kev009]]
|Ongoing development activity, better than releases for the time being
|-
|[https://github.com/POWER9BSD/ POWER9BSD]
|13-CURRENT
|ppc64
|[[User:kev009|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.

* NixOS
* GuixSD ([[User:Isengaara|Isengaara]])

[[Category:Compatibility List]]

User:Q66/Build

2019-04-30T01:47:10Z

Q66:

'''Main desktop system:'''

* Tyan TN71-BP012 POWER8 Turismo 10-core
* 128GB (16x8GB) Hynix DDR3L-1333 reg ECC RAM
* AMD Radeon Pro WX 5100
* Samsung 860 EVO SATAIII 250GB / + Samsung 970 Pro NVMe 512GB /home
* Custom AIO watercooling + IKEA LackRack mount

'''Peripherals:'''

* 3x LG 27UD69P-W 27" 4K UHD displays
* JDS Labs ODAC revB USB audio
* NAD D3020 amplifier
* Audio-Technica ATH-R70x headphones
* Model M keyboard
* 3DConnexion CadMouse

'''Server system:'''

* Talos 2 Lite
* 1x 18-core IBM POWER9
* 128GB (4x32GB) Samsung DDR4-2666 reg ECC RAM
* 1x 250GB WD Blue SSD + 2x 1TB WD Blue SSD
* LSI SAS2308-IT storage HBA
* Mellanox ConnectX EN 10GbE SFP+ NIC
* EVGA Supernova G2 750W 80+Gold PSU
* Nanoxia Deep Silence 2 case
* [[Dual_92mm_fan_CPU|Dual 92mm fan HSF mod]]

'''Software:'''

Void Linux (void-ppc64) ppc64le on both systems. Testing VMs/chroots for Void Linux ppc64, ppc64-musl, ppc64le-musl.

[[Category:User Systems]]

2018-12-09T22:30:31Z

Q66: Created page with "q66 on IRC, Samsung Open Source developer, working on Enlightenment Foundation Libraries, FreeBSD and Void Linux user, porting Void Linux to Talos"

q66 on IRC, Samsung Open Source developer, working on Enlightenment Foundation Libraries, FreeBSD and Void Linux user, porting Void Linux to Talos