The mainboard we need, but not the one we deserve
/talosii/
Nathaniel Baker
William Fisher
Jayden Cook
PCIe 4.0
CAPI 2.0
up to 1 TiB RAM per socket
POWER9 Sforza scale-out CPU
fully open source firmware:
git.raptorcs.com
Joshua Hall
CPUs go up to 22 cores, with SMT4 (four threads per core) for a max total of 176 threads.
Tyler Myers
Low core count chips (4 and 8 core) get double the usual 5 MiB of L3 cache per core.
Parker Powell
Zachary Adams
No silly RGB, just pure POWER
Carter Carter
You can get it without the proprietary SAS controller if you so desire
Brayden Morales
Or with it, since it's isolated with IOMMU groups, there isn't a big risk.
Besides, you are encrypting your hard drives anyway, right?
William Brooks
So is Power9 backwards compatible with most or all instructions of the G4/G5 chips that Apple used to use before 2006? I'm interested in MacOS 9 and OS X Tiger emulation through QEMU. If the hardware is compatible I would be able to just use kernel VM and get insane performance, right? This really arouses my almonds.
Julian Wright
Peititboot for boot selection
Camden Lewis
>>>/reddit/
Mods please delete the blatant shill thread
Isaac Gomez
Fuck off, Intel kike.
Nolan Howard
Breddy gud, but what about the GPUs?
Asher Fisher
There need to be some patches made to KVM; the current implementation is designed to run under PowerVM if I understand correctly.
The TenFourFox dev sort of mentioned this, but he was impatient and just Qemu-ed it for now:
tenfourfox.blogspot.com
Jack Powell
looks gay as shit
where are the aesthetics? The RGB? The labels?
shit board I don't care
Nicholas Sanders
I didn't even say anything about intel. So fuck off
Jeremiah Cook
Everything is plugged directly into the CPU, so apparently Xorg can freak out when you have more than one graphics card:
wiki.raptorcs.com
Brayden Jones
Kayden Ramirez
Since the firmware for both the CPU and the BMC is opensource, it's trivial to, say, change the serial output font
Isaiah Adams
Gavin Richardson
Isaac Wright
Interesting. I'll keep up to date with this stuff. Not being able to run MacOS 9 is a major disappointment, hopefully that can be fixed in time.
Okay, AMD shill.
William Long
Is there anything you can even plug into those PCI-E slots that isn't loaded with proprietary blobs?
Cameron Hill
Your microbenis.
Gavin Morales
those backing plates make me sad. it's literally still the stock surface on both of them :(
Chase Thomas
It's 2018, so very little. Any option-ROMs would probably be harmless though, since it's not x86 right?
Dominic Morales
Vs what? (software guy here)
Christopher Morales
More diagrams!
Logan Murphy
Here's a picture of the CPU
Thomas Martin
Aiden Fisher
looking fine, has the EPoX aesthetic.
Tyler Bailey
I really fucking wish someone who knows what they're doing would buy this and make a detailed review.
>Can it run mednafen well?
>Which emulators can be compiled on PPC? Dolphin? PCSX2?
>How slow would wine be through x86 emulation with something like qemu
>how slow would x86 virtualization be in general?
>does mpv run on it?
You'd probably be stuck with either debian or gentoo too
Evan Collins
The million dollar question, can you play vidyer games on it?
James Morales
>10 MB L3 cache per core
>each core has more L3 than my entire CPU
Holy shit. I thought for sure this was a typo, but it's not.
Caleb Torres
This. PC is just a spreadshit tool for me during weekdays and gaymen tool for weekend.
Ethan Jenkins
>Linux desktop
>fast VM with applications from the best era of OS X
Sounds pretty cool.
Carson Scott
>debian or gentoo too
Gentoo doesn't seem to support the version of Power used for this. It only has stage 3s for the powerpc used on old macs and such.
However, Fedora does have full support for OpenPOWER
alt.fedoraproject.org
Bentley Jones
Oh and Ubuntu too. They support Power9 as of 18.04
ubuntu.com
Carson Sanchez
On Debian the "ppc64" arch is the one you use for POWER9. I assume Gentoo is the same way.
James Taylor
I wanna get one of those and start shoving parts up my ass.
Elijah Smith
DEATH TO x86!
POWERPC STRONG
Dominic Thomas
>Which emulators can be compiled on PPC? Dolphin? PCSX2?
How is this related? This is POWER not PPC.
>how slow would x86 virtualization be in general?
You can't do x86 virtualization, it's POWER not x86. You can only emulate x86.
Jack Torres
>tfw poorfag
>tfw can't afford libre hardware
Juan Hughes
>up to 1 TiB RAM per socket
Is there any ram to even take advantage of that
Parker Thomas
I know IBM has 512gig sticks for servers
Carter Price
What? Just buy a x200 and a raspberry pi, flash libreboot yourself.
If you want a desktop there is that Asus Opteron mobo too.
Anthony Torres
get a Thinkpad T60, or if you want something faster but less libre (is harder to install libreboot)
Noah Phillips
I think he means emulation through qemu.
Tyler Long
>Asus Opteron mobo
isnt that expensive as fuck?
Adrian Rogers
yup
think it would be fast enough to play my hentai VNs with a windows 7 or xp qemu machine?
Andrew Jackson
enjoy
Jaxson Jones
yeh but can it run gaymes
Austin Howard
It can run games.
Bentley Morris
i was expecting benchmarks
Caleb Miller
So... you're telling me Debian runs on it?
Holy fuck, seems like I have to actually buy it...
Dominic Taylor
Yes
Juan Rivera
>i was expecting benchmarks
Benchmarks of what?
Matthew Hernandez
>So is Power9 backwards compatible with most or all instructions of the G4/G5 chips
im not certain but i have decked out a powerbook G4 with ubuntu mate. I can confirm that all those macs were only 32bit and Power9 is 64bit. Im guessing a no.
Jacob Brown
No, faggots. It isn't compatible with x86 software. Now go back to /v/.
Joseph Miller
Isaiah Jackson
But can it run Tux Racer?
Colton Price
no softwares and housefire
Jose Stewart
I think you mean X60. The T60 are hit or miss depending on the graphics chip.
Liam Peterson
Yes, but way less than the Talos 2.
Robert Murphy
Looks like it