Bug#790694: PPC64: 64kb kernel pagesizes and nouveau

From	Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#790694: PPC64: 64kb kernel pagesizes and nouveau
Date	2016-03-30 17:00 +0200
Message-ID	<ripLb-6Tm-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Ben,

> I saw that bug report as well.  I'm not sure what to do about it -
> other distributions were also using 64K pages for 64-bit PowerPC the
> last time I looked, and there may be good reasons to do that.

Would it be possible for you to dig that for us ? It appears that
making nouveau work with 64K page is non-trivial:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94757#c3

Which in turns means most of the userbase with PPC64 (G5 PowerMac)
wont be able to use X.

Thanks for your time,

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Bug#790694: PPC64: 64kb kernel pagesizes and nouveau Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org> - 2016-03-30 17:00 +0200
  Bug#790694: PPC64: 64kb kernel pagesizes and nouveau Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-03-30 17:50 +0200
    Bug#790694: PPC64: 64kb kernel pagesizes and nouveau Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> - 2016-03-30 23:30 +0200
      Bug#790694: PPC64: 64kb kernel pagesizes and nouveau Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org> - 2016-04-04 11:10 +0200
        Bug#790694: PPC64: 64kb kernel pagesizes and nouveau Vincent Pelletier <plr.vincent@gmail.com> - 2017-06-16 02:00 +0200

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