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Usually exploits like CopyFail tend to have PoCs or exploits that are architecture-specific.

FreeBSD is considering retiring powerpc64 prior to branching 16, which would make FreeBSD 15 the last stable version to support the architecture. (32-bit PowerPC is already dropped as of FreeBSD 14, though both OpenBSD and NetBSD generally serve this use…

Debian 13 is out, which like most other architectures is one of the big three distros on ppc64le (which Debian calls ppc64el in accordance with its normal naming scheme).

IBM made the date official: Power11 launches July 25, with the 32 AI-core Spyre Accelerator expected to follow in the fourth quarter.

IBM is announcing their new z17 mainframe, based on the Telum II (see our notes on the original Telum CPU).

A great announcement today from the 9front team: ongoing support for ppc64.

Let's call it a #ShowUsYourTalos moment.

It's been awhile since we dropped in on Microwatt, the OpenPOWER VHDL softcore.

It's Fedora upgrade time again!

UPDATE: The patch has been retracted, see comments.

I updated the Baseline JIT patches to apply against Firefox 128ESR, though if you use the Mercurial rebase extension (and you should), it will rebase automatically and only one file had to be merged — which it did for me also.

Just a quick note that Fedora 41 is out, the standard Linux distro we use here on our two Raptor systems.

The issues with Ion and Wasm in OpenPower Firefox notwithstanding, the Baseline JIT works well in Firefox ESR128, and many of you use it (including yours truly).

[Here's a guest post from taylor.fish on their porting work on music and audio software.

It's been a long hot summer at $DAYJOB and I haven't had much time for much of anything, but I got granted some time this week to take care of an unrelated issue and seized the opportunity to get caught up.

It appears that some of the issues observed by me and others with Chromium on Fedora ppc64le may in fact be due to an incomplete patch set, which is now available on Solid Silicon's Gitlab.

Many of you have heard of the Framework laptop, a modular system that you can DIY from a mainboard and parts or purchase fully assembled.

Are you really desperate to have your own Power10 (libre issues notwithstanding) while we wait for S1?

Rocky Linux 9.4 is out, based on RHEL 9.4, but, you know, free.

The original PowerPC 400-series embedded chips are no longer supported in the Linux kernel as of today.

This is Chromium running on GNOME in Xorg in Fedora 40 on the Talos II.

Fedora 40 is now out, the most current release that I personally use on my own Talos II and Blackbird systems.

OpenBSD 7.5 is out with multiple kernel and SMP improvements (we love SMP improvements on our multicore beasts), more hardware support, and LibreSSL 3.9.0, OpenSSH 9.6/9.7, and LLVM-clang 16.0.6.

Firefox 124 is out, featuring additional platform improvements and some other updates not highly relevant to us.

Finally getting back towards something approaching current.