For those not in the know about Talos II & Blackbird, > PCIe 4.0 w/ CAPI 2.0 support > fully opensource firmware for CPU > SATA controller on Blackbird doesn't need blobs > NIC's proprietary firmware is being reverse engineered (see Project Ortega) > SAS controller on Talos II is optional, but needs proprietary firmware > this does not mean that NIC and SAS controller need blob drivers
>What software is available for this? I'm guessing it's one of those deals where you have to pay the open source tax, and then program yourself to get it to work. At least that's what I'm taking away when the question is ignored by the shillposter.
Ian Phillips
If it's popular and open source, there's a good chance it's already being maintained in the PPC tree, so it will Just Workâ˘, but most porting is minimal.
I know fuckall about Java but isn't the idea to compile once and run everywhere in a JVM? So if the Talos II has Java available, shouldn't the full Java edition of Minecaft run as well? I don't really play video games but that's still my go to time waster.
Fedora Koji shows builds for openjdk on both Big Endian and Little Endian PPC/Power koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1129932 So it's a yes for Java, but I don't know about LWJGL, it might just need to be recompiled for Power, or there might be some porting involved
>Euro Yeah, the shipping costs alone are going to be a real pain unless vikings.net finally decides to be a reseller. Blackbird's board will be < 900 USD though.