Trisquel on OpenPOWER

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megurineturilli
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se unió: 01/10/2012

While I am testing Trisquel 10 on my 5 year old ThinkPenguin Laptop, I have been looking for a Free Distro that can run on OpenPOWER. I heard that Trisquel will include support for ARM and OpenPOWER, I still use Debian on my main computer which is a Talos II. I also use GNU Guix on various other machines. If Trisquel gets support for OpenPOWER that would be a great step in the right direction, as Guix is currenly incomplete on OpenPOWER, a Trisquel port should be easy to do.

jxself
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se unió: 09/13/2010

My understanding is that this is planned.

tonlee
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se unió: 09/08/2014

> Debian on my main computer which is a Talos II.

Could you write about your experiences with the talos computer? I
would want to know how much software works on a talos
computer compared to a x86 computer?

jxself
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se unió: 09/13/2010

"how much software works on a talos computer compared to a x86 computer?"

All of it. Well, as long as you have the source code to compile from. This isn't a new architecture: Support has existed for decades, going back to when the initial PowerPC support was added to the GNU toolchain and Linux sometime in the late 1990s from which the current POWER ISA is derived.

megurineturilli
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se unió: 01/10/2012

95% maybe. I recently began porting the Intel Embree library to POWER9. On Intel hardware there are many complicated SIMD extensions, POWER9 has VSX and libre-soc will have SVP64. With SVP64 libre-soc will be able to handle GPU workloads.