Re:Basic Blackbird Bundle with 4-core IBM Power9 CPU
by tareqak on Monday November 26, 2018 @08:35AM
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I guess situation where you are privacy-conscious enough to inspect all the source code up to and including the CPU microcode? There was post in this thread about FreeBSD being available. If there is a Linux kernel for it, then a distribution might be not too far off e.g. Gentoo (I’m not aware of any POWER9 Linux distribution as off yet).
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Re:Basic Blackbird Bundle with 4-core IBM Power9 CPU
by boudin on Monday November 26, 2018 @09:16AM
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There's a PPC handbook for Gentoo:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:PPC
Looking around, power9 seems to work fine. For software compatibility it's more a case by case scenario.
Re:Basic Blackbird Bundle with 4-core IBM Power9 CPU
by classichasclass on Monday November 26, 2018 @09:08AM
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Fedora 28 and up boots directly on the Talos II and should boot on this. I use F28 myself, but the Raptor folks use Debian which I'm told also works well.
Re:Basic Blackbird Bundle with 4-core IBM Power9 CPU
by nicoburns on Monday November 26, 2018 @09:18AM
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Looks like Debian supports POWER9 https://wiki.debian.org/PPC64