ruscurdotau

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by ruscurdotau 4y ago
Author here, having both buses is a valid configuration and completely expected for running Linux under the PowerVM hypervisor.
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by ruscurdotau 4y ago
Latest upstream kernel should work, because every time I send patches to arch/powerpc I manage to break one legacy platform or another, so there's still people testing them.
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by ruscurdotau 4y ago
Ubuntu is probably the best option there
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by ruscurdotau 4y ago
I tend to debug like a caveman so I don't know if I'm the right person for that - in this case, I just went through config options (make menuconfig) and turned on CONFIG_DRM_I915_DEBUG and a bunch of associated things, then built
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by ruscurdotau 4y ago
Appreciate the response. My main advice would be to try and be as upstream-focused as possible. Partnering with distros is great, but if your hardware is well supported upstream, you cover everything anyone would ever want to use. If the
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by ruscurdotau 4y ago
Linus "Tech Tips" Sebastian introduced the Framework team to the highest level people at AMD he knew last year after his investment in Framework but as of his update video a couple of months ago, nothing really went anywhere. I hi
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by ruscurdotau 4y ago
My guess is they make a nice margin on those Windows licenses and they figure if you're going to install your own OS you might as well put in your own SSD and RAM. It does suck for consumers though.
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by ruscurdotau 4y ago
Author here, I wrote this in the hope I wouldn't have to solve my own laptop problems...
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by ruscurdotau 4y ago
Author here, I don't necessarily think they need an in-house kernel dev, but it wouldn't hurt. Mainly they need someone familiar with the ecosystem that knows how upstream works, knows how to interact with distros, knows how to d