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1. 𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙 (sallynull@gleasonator.com)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 09:14:08 JST 𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙

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   @SuperDicq @Relected Nah, the bottom would be spending 8,000 bucks in a POWER9 motherboard with fully free and auditable firmware, and daily driving on a VM emulating a free implementation of amd64.
   
   https://www.raptorcs.com/content/TL2B02/intro.html
   • Wrongthink (wrongthink@cdrom.tokyo)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 09:14:08 JST Wrongthink

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     Ew, why would you do all that only to virtualize a mess of an ISA?

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     The single socket boards are cheaper and even though they aren’t “certified” yet by RYF, they are fully free (in fact, more so than the dual socket boards factoring for the SATA controller IIRC).

   • 𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙 (sallynull@gleasonator.com)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 06:28:09 JST 𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙

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     > Ew, why would you do all that only to virtualize a mess of an ISA?
     
     Because I'm familiarised with it, and there's still more free software available in amd64 than ppc64, POWER9 is also intended to emulate other ISAs efficiently and these boards are intended to run VMs, and having one VM emulating amd64 doesn't mean you can't have another one running native ISA.
   • Wrongthink (wrongthink@cdrom.tokyo)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 06:28:09 JST Wrongthink

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     Fair enough. I can only count on one hand the number of programs that weren’t readily available through the ppc64le repos when I first bought.