asciilifeform: for the final solution.

asciilifeform: neh

asciilifeform: trinque: sorta like grub.

asciilifeform: and not today.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i certainly intend to sit bitcoin down on the metal. on possibly even this machine. but will probably use ada's spark bare metal for it.

asciilifeform: this is roughly close in sweat level to an msdos port

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: or dos port would have been simple.

asciilifeform: (bitcoind is threaded)

asciilifeform: (scheduler)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: missing any kind of i/o scheduler, or, more importantly, task slicer

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it isn't a particularly great substitute for a unix, unfortunately

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i thought about this

asciilifeform: i am using the one i made.

asciilifeform: but i have not tested the one it makes

asciilifeform: ah and this thing builds uboot

asciilifeform: it builds own world.

asciilifeform: for those who don't know - 'buildroot' does -not- use your local crossdev tooling, should you have any

asciilifeform: a rebuild is about 6 min. on my box.

asciilifeform: doesn't nuke the compiler though, iirc

asciilifeform: (every time you change anything)

asciilifeform: one little warning - 'buildroot' is dumb as a rock, you will have to 'make clean all' just about every time

asciilifeform: if i missed something - shoot it, don't hesitate

asciilifeform: gone.

asciilifeform: i also eliminated all the standard crud that kernel wants to have by default - support for usb hid, mice, keyboards, framebuffers, and anything whatsoever whose purpose i did not know

asciilifeform: have not yet tested led or button.

asciilifeform: the Gb ethernet, 3Gb/s sata, sd card, usb - work

asciilifeform: neato

asciilifeform: you will get a kernel image (also contains rootfs)

asciilifeform: even if no pogo.

asciilifeform: somebody at least build this plz.

asciilifeform: decimation: if you have something unusually archaic, may have problems

asciilifeform: decimation: i only tried it on 4.8.x

asciilifeform: trinque: note that bitcoind is not included in this yet

asciilifeform: uses nothing local but gcc

asciilifeform: it ought to run on any reasonable unix though

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: the cookbook is brutally terse, if any of it isn't obvious plz ask while i'm awake

asciilifeform: gentlemen, start yer enginez

asciilifeform: is here.

asciilifeform: ^^^^^^ thing i promised mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-03-2015#1068981 ☝︎

asciilifeform: incl. compilers.

asciilifeform: should take about 20 min. on a typical box, to build the WHOLE ORCHESTRA

asciilifeform: tested the result, too

asciilifeform: 'Presenting... Build your own Pogotron.'

asciilifeform: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-March/000074.html

asciilifeform: achtung, panzers!

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, mod6, mircea_popescu, danielpbarron, punkman, nubbins`, et al:

asciilifeform: though it beats plastic

asciilifeform: 'heavy metal case' is not the same as 'tempest shield' regardless of appearances

asciilifeform: power

asciilifeform: shielded but for the keyboard, display..

asciilifeform: http://www.loper-os.org/pub/turdel-now-with-sata.gz

asciilifeform: 927d52a91421ad608ceaf011e56aa91d18f478f81707a8774bc0cbdb146621f5118b35c640b376cdcaef206be98b520802f1f749e387b1b4876d6a6a0d080bd1 turdel-now-with-sata.gz

asciilifeform: boot time, from end of udev pause, is ~3 sec.

asciilifeform: sd and usb also work.

asciilifeform: yes, that weird sandisk.

asciilifeform: drive mounts.

asciilifeform: but brain footprint

asciilifeform: not size that matters so much

asciilifeform: from kernel

asciilifeform: chucked all the extra crud

asciilifeform: ... aaand

asciilifeform: we have sata.

asciilifeform: in othere news

asciilifeform: someone, iirc al schwartz, described his sister as 'could suckstart a harley'

asciilifeform: (as in harley)

asciilifeform: suckstarter.

asciilifeform: l0l mr o polls, 'should grumman get another $tril' ?

asciilifeform: so having a position on the matter feels odd

asciilifeform: can't speak for ben_vulpes, but no one came and asked me if the jets should be built

asciilifeform: at the risk of mixing metaphors, the battery is powered by burning the (remaining) furniture.

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: 'heightening the contradictions' ?

asciilifeform read that earlier today, but had a mindfuck and thought it was about perkin elmer

asciilifeform: trinque: why would that be

asciilifeform: cazalla: serial port?

asciilifeform: cazalla: iirc that's the default left by uboot

asciilifeform: who's they

asciilifeform: i'm in the process of slicing out all of the actually relevant changes

asciilifeform: nubbins`: could wait till i post this, you know

asciilifeform: 22:13:05 up 1 day, 22:13, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

asciilifeform: vs the bizarre kabuki thing that i never imprinted on

asciilifeform: they look like actual gurlz

asciilifeform: not the bath, no

asciilifeform: but yes.

asciilifeform: not sure why

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: but similar.

asciilifeform: this less

asciilifeform: which opens.

asciilifeform: as in, there's a piraña pit trap door

asciilifeform: yeah i've for many years wanted to see the 'iq exam' thing automated

asciilifeform: aha that

asciilifeform: in what ?

asciilifeform: the exam that only measures what it wants to measure and not first and mostly willingness-to-do-exam is not yet born

asciilifeform: counting the ones in the drinking water or no ?

asciilifeform: ^

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes probably imagined meat processing plant chopper for whole pigs / corpses

asciilifeform: enormous compared to the tiny jeweler's saw i'm accustomed to

asciilifeform: http://www.hitachipowertools.com/images/product/saws/miter_saws/C10FSH.jpg << that one