Releases · kth5/archpower

Java JDKs now sport hotspot on powerpc64
mesa is now split for big- end little-endian with the former fixed to 24.x releases for the time being
firefoxnow available for powerpc64
mixxx has been added expanding the pro-audio group on all flavours
blender has been dropped for shoddy non-x86/arm64 support
vtk has been dropped for shoddy non-x86/arm64 support
espresso (WiiU SMP) rebuilds are about 80% in & a working system should be doable for those who know what they're doing

New ISOs
https://archlinuxpower.org/iso/stable/archpower-2025.11.07-powerpc.iso
https://archlinuxpower.org/iso/stable/archpower-2025.11.07-powerpc64.iso
https://archlinuxpower.org/iso/stable/archpower-2025.11.07-powerpc6432.iso
https://archlinuxpower.org/iso/stable/archpower-2025.11.07-powerpc64le.iso

Assets 2

13 Mar 09:25

kth5

2025.03.12-release

ccdd7eb

2025.03.12-release

Updates include but are not limited to:

Linux 6.13.6 / 6.6.82 / 6.1.129
GCC 14.2.1 / Glibc 2.41 / Binutils 2.43.1
Clang/LLVM 19.1.7
Rust 1.84.1
Python 3.13.2
Qemu 9.2.0
Qt 6.8.2
Firefox 133.0.3 / 128.8.0
Plasma 6.3.1
KDE Gear 24.12.2
Libreoffice 24.8.4
LTS JDK 21 for all architectures
and many more

Notable changes, fixes & updates:

jemalloc 64k/4k hybrid build fixed (@bobpaul)
go on big-endian powerpc64 (POWER8 or later) along with many projects previously unavailable (@bobpaul)
introduced linux-lts-6.1 to bring back a 6.1.x kernel and an LTS that has many features removed in later versions (@techflashYT & @kth5)
powerpc64le baseline CPU requirement lowered to POWER8 (@kth5)

New ISOs
https://archlinuxpower.org/iso/stable/archpower-2025.03.12-powerpc.iso
https://archlinuxpower.org/iso/stable/archpower-2025.03.12-powerpc64.iso
https://archlinuxpower.org/iso/stable/archpower-2025.03.12-powerpc6432.iso
https://archlinuxpower.org/iso/stable/archpower-2025.03.12-powerpc64le.iso

Contributors

bobpaul, kth5, and techflashYT

Assets 2

08 Dec 19:23

kth5

2024.12.08-release

1758d40

2024.12.08 - Fixes for powerpc and powerpc6432 ISO Pre-release

Pre-release

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

Assets 2

04 Dec 08:34

kth5

2024.12.04-release

1758d40

2024.12.04 - Update, fixes & new ISOs

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

Contributors

flaviojs and techflashYT

Assets 2

06 May 06:56

kth5

2024.05.05-release

184d0e5

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 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

Assets 2

28 Mar 13:25

kth5

2024.04.28-release

61e6af6

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 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.

Assets 2

06 Feb 20:44

kth5

2024.01.24-release-svf2

84a9db3

2024.02.06 - Starfive Visionfive V2 updates Pre-release

Pre-release

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: