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ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: 'tis sitting in my workdir, did not imagine it
to be useful
to others
jhvh1: asciilifeform:
The operation succeeded.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-21 22:24 asciilifeform:
trinque's deedbot may be one of
the remaining
ben_vulpes: republican outposts in
the sea of shit
hanbot: yeah,
ty. i wonder if it wouldn't be wise
to update
that list monthly as part of reporting etc.
☟︎ spyked: anyway, I ordered
three icesticks (because free shipping, and would rather pay for extra hardware
than shipping)
spyked: thanks for
the
tip. didn't know, initially
thought
there was a
time limit for
that
jhvh1: asciilifeform:
The operation succeeded.
spyked: this is gonna be fun. asciilifeform, I haven't looked into hw since 2010, so
there might be stupid questions coming your way once I start playing with
this. btw, I don't mind getting my hands dirty with soldering, I just have very rudimentary
tools for now.
spyked hates xilinx with passion. if only because of
the bloated software
☟︎ spyked: so from ^
the "ultra"er models don't work with
the open source
toolchain? I was looking at one of
the breakout boards earlier
spyked: asciilifeform, was going
to ask. is
there particular ice40 you're recommending? it might be a while until I get one but I looked over
the list and
they had various
types (ultralite etc.)
jhvh1: asciilifeform:
The operation succeeded.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-21 12:06 asciilifeform: spyked: we have loooooong way
to go -
try and make a ddr controller first
BingoBoingo: Today's adventure into
the path of
totality was very worthwhile, especially over merely vieing partial phase of eclipse. Based on
traffic,
traveling
to
the centerline of
totality zone seems like it would have offered little additional benefit.
phf: right, i didn't even comment on
that aspect, because everything should be obvious from
that article i linked.
phf: The Secrets of Meta-NSA by what's
that guy from yesterday
phf: i suspect
there's still some amount of conformance with GOST. i personally
think it could be a good practice if done right, but reading some usg account of it i can see how it can be
turned into bureaucratic money maker
phf: pff, russian
tech. spec is produced by kiril after sit in room with 2 fpga (such luxury, whole
two!) and bread for
three months
☟︎ phf: i should clarify
that rather architecture can be improved ~upon~ incrementaly
phf: to some extent something like
that was done in a
transition from 36xx
to ivory
☟︎ phf: sure, but chinual is extremely detailed and
the ~architecture~ can be improved incrementaly. for example brad's cpu is, yes, implemented as an emulator for a discrete circuit. but at
the same
time it can be isolated from
the bus, put into a determenistic harness, and rewritten from
the cpu spec in chinual.
phf: right, but you can already do
that with, say, fpga cadr. it's not necessarily a shiny experience
though
phf: i still stand by
this point, but with a disclaimer. i
think
that one of
the advantages early hackers had was
that
they were working from inside
their systems. linus was dogfooding linux, symbolics were using every lisp machine at
their disposal
to build better lisp machines. i
think
there's inherent folly in planning a revolution from
the comfort of our bourgeois machines :p
spyked: yeah,
that makes sense.
spyked: asciilifeform, yeah, it's right below phf's initial reply.
the whole
thing
phf: now i didn't find out about race conditions myself,
that data point came from dks,
they discovered race conditions as part of
the emulator rewrite, but
they have
the benefit of having access
to
the necessary low level bits
☟︎ phf: i spent (mostly another whisperer and myself did) on getting vlm stable, and i'm unconvinced
that some of
the issues we encountered were purely "buggy vlm".
there is, for example, a crash in floating point instruction
that happens when you load document examiner on stock piratebay opengenera. i have no explanation for it still, because vlm code ~seems
to do
the right
thing~.
there are other similar instances
☟︎☟︎ spyked: I'm still in
the process of grokking
the DMA+interrupts discussion.
spyked: asciilifeform, lol, yeah,
that's why I gave MIPS as an example. but actually, MIPS on FPGA + MIPS Lisp machine implementation might be more work
than starting from CADR.
that is, not even accounting for RAM and peripherals
a111: Logged on 2016-10-04 15:36 asciilifeform: ACHTUNG, PANZERS! pc engines 'apu2' (the board with
the intel nics - vs. 'apu1', with realtek) ,
turns out, is crippled, hdt probe barfs with it,
the cpu is reputed
to have a drm fuse set.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-04 22:58 asciilifeform: possibly one could
try building a netbsd
that doesn't
try
to
touch
the usb chip at all.
then enjoy setting up sans keyboard.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-04 20:55 asciilifeform: in other noose, asciilifeform
took
the chance made by
the death of ssd in 'zoolag'
to attempt netbsd. result : no boot. ( with or without 'no acpi' ) option, hangs at usb init.
spyked: asciilifeform, I see. I
thought
this would be a way
to make
the problem easier in
the short/medium
term. but I've had
to deal with being at
the mercy of X myself at another level so
this makes sense.
valentinbuza: hi spyked. I just read
the MP blog a week ago :) saw your old comments