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| 9 Feb 2026 |
 Stas | I want to try building nixos for BE PowerPC G5. Any issues with that cpu arch anyone is aware of? | 10:10:29 |
| Stas | I have a 16GB RAM Power Mac G5, and have a working cross compiled nixos setup for armv7. Thinking of modifying it to try build an install media for G5 | 10:12:20 |
 K900 | @Puna ^ | 10:13:16 |
| Stas | I know I will have problems with browsers and so on later on, but I want to see how much of a desktop it can get. :D | 10:20:31 |
| Stas | Already learned about two ABI versions the arch has, mostly soaking up the knowledge from Gentoo wiki on it | 10:33:03 |
 Grimmauld (any/all) | fwiw servo is pretty okay on exotics if rust supports those platforms, and rust platform support is okayish, after all its part of the linux kernel now | 10:56:46 |
| Grimmauld (any/all) | so if you want a browser, try servo | 10:57:03 |
| Stas | Thanks for the tip! It is cool hardware, even the insides look more like IBM than apple made | 11:02:16 |
| Stas | Took Chinese RAM sticks like a champ | 11:03:34 |
 Puna | installer module needs some changes for the ISO to get properly picked up by the system. i can push a WIP PR for that later today. (it's CHRP-ish, with the usual Apple nonesense attached to it) | 11:26:38 |
| Stas | Wow! You actually did it already :D | 11:27:27 |
| Stas | I sometimes interact with PowerVM gear at work, and hope to get one at home once we discontinue AIX. | 11:28:23 |
| Stas | kust the obscurity of it makes it fun | 11:28:34 |
| Stas | * just the obscurity of it makes it fun | 11:28:38 |
| Stas | AFAIK, it needs to blessed with the right flags, and be HFS for boot from OF to work | 11:29:18 |
| Puna | i also haven't tried building the image cross, or actually installing nixos yet. just building nix stuff on debian natively and booting into the installer to test results. i think you'll need mac-fdisk or pdisk to get your disk formatted in APM format, and hfsutils to create the HFS boot partition and bless stuff on it. | 11:29:26 |
| Puna | fix for building pdisk: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/488404
hfsutils: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/488494 | 11:29:49 |
| Puna | rust cross that involves bindgen (i.e. mesa, but other stuff too) is borked because the target triplet fixes don't get passed through: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/473862
not sure if that'll affect building an iso cross though. | 11:34:48 |
| Stas | thank you! I will try it out over the next weekend. I can also always bootstrap from an existing Linux distro if I have to | 11:35:00 |
| K900 | It does | 11:35:37 |
