asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, mod6 ?

asciilifeform: therealbitcoin chairmen, awaken

asciilifeform: anyway since when do i have to decide this

asciilifeform: but i wasn't even thinking of this.

asciilifeform: if you must, signed updates

asciilifeform: what updates.

asciilifeform: nubbins`: pogo4 has no buttons ☟︎

asciilifeform: maybe net connection dead

asciilifeform: maybe disk is dead

asciilifeform: or else how is operator to know what becomes of his node

asciilifeform: it is also of great importance to blink the correct colour led!

asciilifeform: 4) start bitcoind (in reset death loop)

asciilifeform: that is, which detects 1) have we a disk plugged in? 2) if so, has it a blockchain? 3) if plugged in, no blockchain - format disk

asciilifeform: the one ingredient that is still needed, that i have not attempted at all, is the formatter

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: and can be trimmed into some approximation of good shape.

asciilifeform: this is amply enough to work from

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: today by popular demand i went on a little deathmarch and got a source-built traditional linux going on it.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: netbsd i had running weeks and weeks ago. but it sucks for reasons already described in log

asciilifeform: (it croaks, having no meaningful rootfs, but that's for tomorrow) ☟︎

asciilifeform: anyway whoever wants can boot up turdel using my tftp instructions (or by actually flashing it in) and see that it did happen.

asciilifeform: nubbins`: there are some memory-mapped i/o iirc

asciilifeform: nubbins`: not entirely

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

asciilifeform: 7089334f25a0e1d8b09db96da4d61fbdf7ea7aca258fdd20012f85be976c39e63f5bc29842b25f0dc18a8ccdc74ad1e7c4ed7af56faa39b3917f76e082077589 turdel.gz

asciilifeform: just as i suspected

asciilifeform: the interesting parts were rolled in some time ago in mainline, apparently

asciilifeform: apparently not

asciilifeform: linux 3.18

asciilifeform: nono

asciilifeform: me.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: habemus kernelam

asciilifeform: (sound cards, etc)

asciilifeform: 2) mercilessly root out the idiot crud that gets rolled in by default

asciilifeform: tomorrow evening i'll 1) flash in the rootfs to get something like a working box

asciilifeform: didn't use any of the weirdo crap from above link

asciilifeform: that's it

asciilifeform: make

asciilifeform: make sheevaplug_defconfig

asciilifeform: using -vanilla buildroot-

asciilifeform: but hey, works

asciilifeform: (because no root fs)

asciilifeform: ... and promptly panics

asciilifeform: s

asciilifeform: that boot

asciilifeform: guess what, i built a kernel

asciilifeform: that's the boojum, i think

asciilifeform: nubbins`: he has a patch.

asciilifeform: (hey it extinguishes - eventually.)

asciilifeform: the famous kerosene fire extinguisher.

asciilifeform: using your config

asciilifeform: which comes with buildroot

asciilifeform: nubbins`: 3.18

asciilifeform: anyway it's just as dead as the last maxint kernels

asciilifeform: (the extra mass in the config was actually from building every possible module. which went into the rootfs and had no impact on the kernel proper)

asciilifeform: nubbins`: from that kernel.

asciilifeform: nubbins`: no signs of life

asciilifeform: and for who knows how long.

asciilifeform: still building

asciilifeform: and that is why ten thousand joysticks ?

asciilifeform: no

asciilifeform: every possible sound card, gpu,...

asciilifeform: i mean, it's 10x the size

asciilifeform: crapolade that is not possibly used for anything, ever.

asciilifeform: woah the sheer amount of turdage in that one

asciilifeform: nubbins`: ty, about to test it

asciilifeform: nubbins`: from where ?

asciilifeform: nubbins`: not 3.18 !

asciilifeform: but it means that there is no way to replicate the kernel build short of catching the perpetrator and slowly roasting him over a fire

asciilifeform: nubbins`: snipped to save space then

asciilifeform: punkman ?

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo, mod6, danielpbarron, mircea_popescu, ben_vulpes ???

asciilifeform: if no one has debian, but someone has arch - please post that

asciilifeform: note that this may or may not work depending on whether the kernel was built with this enabled

asciilifeform: zcat /proc/config.gz > config.txt

asciilifeform: please extract the config & post

asciilifeform: anyone here have pogo with debian running?

asciilifeform: (or anything else)

asciilifeform: just that there is no meaningful detail in there about config for 3.18

asciilifeform: that isn't why

asciilifeform: was first place i looked way back when.

asciilifeform: nubbins`: there most certainly was not.

asciilifeform: does - would you believe - accelerated xor.

asciilifeform: we don't use it for anything

asciilifeform: at any rate, precisely one plug.

asciilifeform: nubbins`: one's a phantom limb, i think

asciilifeform: must use cross-compiler

asciilifeform: -none of these os-en build on the machine itself!!!-

asciilifeform: oh, and in case this wasn't clear,

asciilifeform: (1 connector, 2x speed)

asciilifeform: if you're thinking of speed - 2

asciilifeform: or wait

asciilifeform: nubbins`: 1

asciilifeform: one is buildroot's, the other is the kernel's

asciilifeform: use the two configs posted just now.

asciilifeform: http://buildroot.uclibc.org << anyone who wants to re-create my experiment, now can

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hence why i spent so long on it

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is the -only- thing i was able to build from source and actually get a shell on

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not quite. netbsd builds

asciilifeform: http://dpaste.com/2MSHFN2.txt << buildroot config for completeness