asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i actually have a pogo in stock, if you like just-for-you it can be plugged in.

asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: iirc you have 20 'pogo' . ( not aware of other 'detritus' )

asciilifeform: with the modest ram, not a rk competitor, but potentially useful for other applications ( has 3 serial ports, so can eat FG ) ; runs 'pogo'-style linux, so can stuff even classic gpg in ; can have nic plug attached, so potentially even host small net proggies ; pulls coupla milliwatt, so could work in radio relays or similar.

asciilifeform: already in the 'pogo' experiment we had a working 32bit arm trb. so i expect it is doable with existing toolchain for 32-under-64.

asciilifeform only ever built embeddeds (e.g. for 'm', for 'pogo', etc) via 'buildroot', never made a gentoo for'em

asciilifeform: and you can plug'em into virtually any box, from 'vax' to 'pogo', all you need is a serial port of whatever description.

asciilifeform: no need to cross compile unless you're building for something too small to run gcc itself ( and chances are it won't run trb , if so small , as with 'pogo' )

asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: defo, all of the moving parts already in place for it. ( and apparently nao there is a $49 pogo-cum-2GB ? )

asciilifeform: !#s pogo

asciilifeform: hey look at that, mp_en_viaje , finally 'pogo' with 2GB

asciilifeform: i.e. asciilifeform ported to pogo (even had working, save for the flash disk, netbsd port) , then the iron vanished from market long before achieved anyffin useful on it ☟︎

asciilifeform: i was able to bake a musl 'busybox' linux for pogo in '15, but admittedly this was not a gentoo

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-02-14#1896276 << notably ye olde trb-on-pogo asciilifeform recipe ran off initramfs ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-01#1877608 << pogo is a 256MB ram / 2core / 800MHz box, and takes up considerable vertical space if you mount the sata disk ; rk is a 2GB / 4core / 1.8GHz box, and takes up 2cm of vertical ( and there is existing rack of'em ) ☝︎

asciilifeform: btw i'd kinda like to give those ivories to mircea_popescu for safekeep, if he agrees ( they're pocket-sized, so not 'pogo crate' )

asciilifeform: all i really need from the bootrom is to do what uboot on pogo did, i.e. see the disks ( internal ssd, usb, sd ) , read some classic partitions ( e.g. ext3 ), load kernels ( in human, not google, format ) and present pogo-style uboot cmdline for these.

asciilifeform: shinohai: consider taking a short at porting cuntoo to pogo, oughta be relatively simple

asciilifeform: conceivably, even 256MB-pogo-cum-mech-hdd-cum-swap-partition-cum-aggression might work.

asciilifeform: ( i had it, fwiw, on pogo )

asciilifeform: pogo container

asciilifeform: in re pogo in particular, i dun recall a particular +ev biznis plan for'em . they were , in mircea_popescu's exact, iirc, words, a reserve fleet.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: pogo ? they're as usable as ever as soon as somebody gets trb into 256MB, lol

asciilifeform: not to mention that it seems to be a ~pogo with eeprom proggy (these dun show on micrograph anyway)

asciilifeform: i introduced this for pogo, mod6 et al generalized to pc.

asciilifeform: come to think of it, a little proxy box ( make out of ~anything, even pogo ) would handily do the job. think 'chinese firewall https stripper' for home lan. ☟︎

asciilifeform: i find busybox to be useful on ancient routers , pogo , & similar , but quite unusable as a unixutils substitute on actual workstation

asciilifeform: ~= pogo.

asciilifeform: pogo for that matter is also an arm7 (32)

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: pogo has the minus of taking up much vertical space when disk is in

asciilifeform: ( this is not even entirely in jest: a considerable quantity of pogo could fit in a 2u vertical )

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: pogo!11

asciilifeform: WHAT is on your pogo

asciilifeform: shinohai: what's on your pogo ?

asciilifeform: you likewise need exactly same voltage converter for pogo , and most other small devices.

asciilifeform: ( even, say, a pogo )

asciilifeform: pogo's only got 1 nic

asciilifeform: how long your longest run of trb on pogo, danielpbarron ?

asciilifeform: or cemented pogo, etc.

asciilifeform: ( incl. pogo )

asciilifeform: ( and in fact it ran on my pogo. but that doesn't produce a usable trb node. )

asciilifeform: i also have a port for that other pogo-like thing, whose name escapes me at the present moment, 4 core beast, fiddybux or so

asciilifeform pictures pogo stick stake

asciilifeform: ( i had a pogo going like this for a while )

asciilifeform: main weakness of apu1 is that it is approx. the pogo

asciilifeform: we had this thread, in re pogo's marvell cpu.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 731 Wh is approx enough to run.. a pogo.

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: see the pogo build articles.

asciilifeform: as asciilifeform did for, e.g., pogo.

asciilifeform: trinque: for 'microscopic task but needs own box', i prefer something more like pogo, which is fanless, solidstate, and zero-maintenance. vs ancient clunking monster , howling like vacuum cleaner and filled with dying mechanical hdds

asciilifeform: re upstack -- i actually have here an earlier mips from imagination co. -- it is notbad.jpg (tested back in the day as potential pogo replacement)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, mod6 : next mega-advance will probably be to make it self-reproducing - i.e. to shit out a bootable hdd with itself. i experimented with this in the pogo era but hung up at the time on buildroot freezing, which was since solved by mod6

asciilifeform: the only cpp in my pogo build was trb.

asciilifeform: trinque: you can tell that d00d took 0 trouble to read, e.g., the pogo archives ☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform: if you remove 'portage', you have, magic!111, working gentoo. but it is then ~same as just generic linux a la my pogo build.

asciilifeform: the pictured converters are quite common and the folks who played with 'pogo' already have some.

asciilifeform: ( in a much earlier even thread , about the marvell chipset used in pogotron, i found same thing -- the chip is simply not www-orderable in the west, at least not at any kind of price point that isn't a laugh when stood next to the price of whole pogo )

asciilifeform: as, e.g., pogo with mechanical hdd does not.

asciilifeform: (or on pogo. or,or.)

asciilifeform: and i realize now that all of my boxes that 'only have sh' are actually busyboxtrons (e.g., pogo)

asciilifeform: (which is still 8x moar than pogo...)

asciilifeform: pogo is great if your proggy isn't a memory hog.