Releases: kth5/archpower
2024.05.05 - Update, fixes, status & new ISOs
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
onpowerpc{,64}
due to general brokeness - the
powerpc
ISO has been split intopowerpc
andpowerpc6432
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
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 addedelfutils>=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 flakylinuxboot
,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 replacearchiso
entirely which has grown old and we could just unify everything under the petitboot banner (perhaps notpowerpc
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 inmesa>=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
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
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
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
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
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 version2.6.1-1.2
for big-endian powerpc and powerpc64 linux-lts
is now on the6.1
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
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
2023.02.20 - Initial powerpc64 Big-Endian Support
A mix of [base]
and [testing]
is still required and the provided number of packages is pretty low still. Installer here:
https://archlinuxpower.org/iso/alpha/archpower-2023.02.20-powerpc64.iso
Don't forget to enable [testing]
and [testing-any]
in pacman.conf
on the installer.
ISO is to support 970
and higher, thus Macintosh G5, (probably) PS3 and newer.
2022.12.12 - Base packages and ISO refresh
Release Highlights:
- Linux 6.0.12
- Libreoffice 7.4.1
- Firefox 107.0.1
- Chromium 107
- Rust 1.65.0
- Plasma 5.26.2
- OpenSSL 3.0.7 (and rebuilds)
- Boost 1.80.0 (and rebuilds)
- ICU 72.1 (and rebuilds)
- and many more
Additional notes:
- PowerMAC G5 support has been tested on real hardware and new ISOs will properly boot. Documentation on the Wiki has been updated where applicable.
powerpc
ISOs now includelinux-firmware
, be aware when using modeset and legacy framebuffers- riscv64 refresh is in the works for Starfive Visionfive V1 and V2
Last but not least, ISOs have been refreshed:
https://archlinuxpower.org/iso/stable/archpower-2022.11.02-powerpc.iso
https://archlinuxpower.org/iso/stable/archpower-2022.11.02-powerpc64le.iso