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2024.12.08 - Fixes for powerpc and powerpc6432 ISO

08 Dec 19:23
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Notable changes, fixes & updates:

  • when generated on a 32bit userland, archiso could not generate the initramfs properly due to constraints to just 4GB adress space leading to problems on boot

2024.12.04 ISOs have been restracted for powerpc and powerpc6432 only.

New ISOs
https://archlinuxpower.org/iso/stable/archpower-2024.12.08-powerpc.iso
https://archlinuxpower.org/iso/stable/archpower-2024.12.08-powerpc6432.iso

2024.12.04 - Update, fixes & new ISOs

04 Dec 08:34
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Updates include but are not limited to:

  • Linux 6.11.9 / 6.6.62
  • GCC 14.1.1 / Glibc 2.40 / Binutils 2.43.1
  • Rust 1.82.0
  • Qemu 9.0.2/9.1.1
  • Qt 6.8
  • Firefox 130 / 128
  • Plasma 6.2.2
  • KDE Gear 24.08.2
  • Libreoffice 24.8.2
  • and many more

Notable changes, fixes & updates:

  • major work on the installers fixing many individual problems (@flaviojs)
  • firefox-esr with Classilla's JIT patches for powerpc64le
  • LibreOffice now also on powerpc and powerpc64
  • Linux Wii has adopted ArchPOWER as their default distro (@techflashYT)
  • Linux WiiU tarballs
  • Starfive VisionFive V2 kernel up to 6.6.x (SD creator in progress)
  • installers at least temporarily will use bash instead of zsh #93

New ISOs
https://archlinuxpower.org/iso/stable/archpower-2024.12.04-powerpc.iso
https://archlinuxpower.org/iso/stable/archpower-2024.12.04-powerpc64.iso
https://archlinuxpower.org/iso/stable/archpower-2024.12.04-powerpc64le.iso

2024.05.05 - Update, fixes, status & new ISOs

06 May 06:56
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Updates include but are not limited to:

  • Linux 6.8.9 / 6.6.30
  • Rust 1.77.0
  • Qemu 9.0.0
  • Qt 6.7.0
  • Firefox 125.0.3 / 115.10.0
  • Blender 4.1.0
  • Arcticfox 44.0
  • Plasma 6.0.4
  • KDE Gear 24.02.2
  • Libreoffice 24.2.3
  • LxQt 2.0.0
  • and many more

Notable changes & fixes:

  • llvm & opencl support as well most of Vulkan functionality has been removed from mesa-24.0.6 on powerpc{,64} due to general brokeness
  • the powerpc ISO has been split into powerpc and powerpc6432 to reduce ISO size (fits on 650Mbyte CD-R still)

New ISOs

https://archlinuxpower.org/iso/stable/archpower-2024.05.05-powerpc.iso
https://archlinuxpower.org/iso/stable/archpower-2024.05.05-powerpc64.iso
https://archlinuxpower.org/iso/stable/archpower-2024.05.05-powerpc6432.iso
https://archlinuxpower.org/iso/stable/archpower-2024.05.05-powerpc64le.iso

2024.04.28 - Update, fixes, status & a bit of outlook

28 Mar 13:25
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Updates include but are not limited to:

  • Linux 6.8.1 / 6.6.21
  • Rust 1.76.0
  • Qemu 8.2.1
  • Qt 6.6.2
  • Firefox 124.0.1
  • Thunderbird 115.9.0
  • Blender 4.0.2
  • Arcticfox 43.1
  • Plasma 6.0.0
  • KDE Gear 24.02.0
  • LLVM/Clang 17.0.6
  • and many more

Notable changes & fixes:

  • webkit variants are now stable on powerpc and derived browsers work as intended
  • the Rocm 6.0.2 stack is now mostly complete (powerpc64* & riscv64)
  • linux-sophgo introduced using the awesome milkv-community repo's variant sporting 6.8.0 on the Pioneer
  • lxde & lxqt have been added as choice for your DE on all platforms
  • the sd-card creator for Starfive's Visionfive V2 is functional
  • debuginfod is now supported & debug packages are slowly being added elfutils>=0.190-2.1 are required
  • all qt*-webengine support has been deprecated & is to be removed entirely in the near future

Next Milestones

  • Petitboot for Riscv64
    Some focus will go towards Riscv64 and porting Petitboot as another option to flaky linuxboot, grub or directly loading kernels from firmware. This is well underway and a discussion will be opened soon. The first target is the Milk-V Pioneer based on SOPHON SG2042. kexec is functional and some manually crafted initrds already load from home built firmware. Along with the obvious ease of use over other solutions so far available on RISC-V, it'll also bring in netboot support along with emergency shell functions etc.

  • sd-card creators
    Right now the focus is on RISC-V here and finally get it to the state it can generate bootable SD cards for all supported boards. However, this may eventually replace archiso entirely which has grown old and we could just unify everything under the petitboot banner (perhaps not powerpc but we'll see about that).

  • Intel XE & Imagination PowerVR GPU support
    With Linux 6.8 finally being out stable & in its second point release, both are now fully enabled in the kernel itself and in mesa>=24.0.2. Since these chipsets are rather fresh in terms of kernel and mesa code, your mileage may vary though. This will be an ongoing effort as testing is required and patches are still coming all the time.

ISOs

New ISOs are not yet necessary so keep using the prior release.

2024.02.06 - Starfive Visionfive V2 updates

06 Feb 20:44
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Finalized the Starfive Visionfive V2 sd-creator and refinded it a quite a bit. Of course, it's far from perfect and it is the only board supported with this method for the moment.

Check out the README.txt on how to create an ArchPOWER SD-Card for your Visionfive V2.

Highlights:

  • Based off of VF2 SDK 3.8.2
  • Linux 6.1.31 (linux-visionfive2)
  • RootFS base from 01/28/2024

Download here:
https://archlinuxpower.org/riscv-images/starfive-visionfive-v2/

2024.01.24 - Updates, fixes & new ISOs

25 Jan 15:33
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Updates include but are not limited to:

  • Linux 6.7.1 / 6.1.74
  • Rust 1.75.0
  • Qemu 8.1.3
  • Qt 6.6.1
  • KF5 5.113.0
  • Plasma 5.27.10
  • KDE 23.08.4
  • and many more

Last but not least, ISOs have been refreshed:
https://archlinuxpower.org/iso/stable/archpower-2024.01.24-powerpc.iso
https://archlinuxpower.org/iso/stable/archpower-2024.01.24-powerpc64.iso
https://archlinuxpower.org/iso/stable/archpower-2024.01.24-powerpc64le.iso

2023.12.07 - Updates, fixes & new powerpc64 ISO

07 Dec 21:23
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Updates include but are not limited to:

  • Linux 6.6.4 / 6.1.65
  • Firefox 120.0.1
  • Rust 1.73.0
  • Qemu 8.1.2
  • Qt 6.6.0
  • KF5 5.112.0
  • Plasma 5.27.9
  • KDE 23.08.2
  • OpenJDK 21
  • and many more

Major issues fixed:
#65 - Console issue on IBM pSeries bare-metal (powerpc64)

For which the powerpc64 ISO has been refreshed already:
https://archlinuxpower.org/iso/stable/archpower-2023.12.07-powerpc64.iso
https://archlinuxpower.org/iso/stable/archpower-2023.12.07-powerpc64.iso.sig

For this release many thanks go out to @BushyToaster88 for providing remote access to an IBM S8284-22A.

2023.09.19 - Updates, fixes & new ISOs

19 Sep 08:32
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Updates include but are not limited to:

  • Linux 6.5.3 / 6.1.53
  • systemd 254 (!powerpc)
  • Firefox 117.0.1
  • Thunderbird 115.1.1
  • Chromium 116.0.5845.187
  • Rust 1.71.1
  • Qemu 8.0.4
  • Plasma 5.27.7
  • and many more

Last but not least, ISOs have been refreshed:
https://archlinuxpower.org/iso/stable/archpower-2023.09.18-powerpc.iso
https://archlinuxpower.org/iso/stable/archpower-2023.09.19-powerpc64.iso
https://archlinuxpower.org/iso/stable/archpower-2023.09.18-powerpc64le.iso

2023.08.19 - Updates, big fixes & new ISOs

19 Aug 14:41
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Updates include but are not limited to:

  • Linux 6.4.11 / 6.1.46
  • GCC 13.2.1
  • Perl 5.38.0
  • Python 3.11
  • Clang/LLVM 16.0.6
  • OpenJDK 20
  • Firefox 116.0.2
  • Rust 1.71.0
  • Plasma 5.27.6
  • and many more

Additional notes:

  • archpower#60 a particularly nasty bug in kbd has been fixed with version 2.6.1-1.2 for big-endian powerpc and powerpc64
  • linux-lts is now on the 6.1 branch

Last but not least, ISOs have been refreshed:
https://archlinuxpower.org/iso/stable/archpower-2023.08.19-powerpc.iso
https://archlinuxpower.org/iso/stable/archpower-2023.08.19-powerpc64.iso
https://archlinuxpower.org/iso/stable/archpower-2023.08.19-powerpc64le.iso

2023.04.27 - Visionfive2 SD creator, powerpc64 expansion and the usual updates

27 Apr 21:24
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Highlights:

VisionFive 2 SD card creator

Grab it here:
https://archlinuxpower.org/riscv-images/starfive-visionfive-v2/

See README for more details.

powerpc64 expansion & many updates

Many more packages now available for powerpc64 BE flavour. Including but not limited to:

  • Linux 6.2.12
  • Firefox 111.0.1
  • Rust 1.68.2
  • Plasma 5.27.2
  • Xfce4 4.18.1
  • and many more