asciilifeform: i dun think i've ever sat on a working box with anything other than hand-sewn xorg.conf
asciilifeform: can get back the old terms ? or not ?
asciilifeform: 'Pre-loading i915kms.ko/radeonkms.ko disables video output from the point of time these video drivers are attached until interrupt threads are enabled way later. This makes kernel panics during boot undebugable.' << ahahahahaha
asciilifeform: lol not even vga term support anymoar
asciilifeform: and is there a systemd on freebsd yet
asciilifeform: lemme guess, is 'wayland' also on the conveyor.
asciilifeform: and out of curiosity, what else got butchered ?
asciilifeform: phf: did it ever get a working /dev/random back ?
asciilifeform not much interested in post-clangization freebsd; and currently dun have the time, energy to archaeologically unearth a working-on-recent-iron vintage
asciilifeform: ( granted , this has not happened in a while. the last major bout was perhaps the boot process itself, which was foolproof on classical pc arch up to late '90s, and then they 'had to' introduce acpiism, 'secure boot', abolition of the mbr, etc )
asciilifeform: if any part of the edifice ever shows any symptom of fully working, they re-fuck it.☟︎
asciilifeform: and could even say 'if it worked, would be merely ugly' but of course just like other microshitisms it never fully works, and is eternal fountain of 'moar studies needed', 'buy the upgrade', 'your iron is obsolete' etc
asciilifeform: 'everything has already been decided in NDA-protected conference rooms' etc
asciilifeform: re acpi as instrument of microshitization, observe how ( e.g. https://lwn.net/Articles/574439 ) it is being put in arm boxes, where 0 intel legacycrapola, and spearheaded by... redhat ( the designated microshit for 'linux' )
asciilifeform: the 'fancy' firmware, for instance, that 'does things'. entirely the opposite of the 1980s 'init the iron and get the FUCK out of the way' practice.
asciilifeform: it's a 'grandmother with balls', could have sane cpu defined in 100pgs of a4, with no 'modes' at all, and no segments, and no idiocy, if intel had not succeeded in killing dec alpha, say
asciilifeform: for one thing, bios crapola typically written in classical 16b real.
asciilifeform: there isn't , on x86olade, a 'longer than 16b regs, no segmentation, but no mpu and bios calls work' mode.
asciilifeform: y'know , bios dun have to be written by tards
asciilifeform: oh those still won't work, in shitware bios
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: brightness knob on post-2007ish lappy is not properly hardwaristic, demands os support, and only happens to work during boot because still in realmode, and biosism works
asciilifeform: supposedly worx on the ones with intel vga
asciilifeform recalls for some reason the schmeisser and stahlhelm in buenos aires junkshop
asciilifeform: ( and to this day kept to it, e.g. NT existed for dec alpha, little endian, but never afaik ppc or sparc, big- )
asciilifeform: it is not imho wholly coincidental that microshit, as early as '80s, proclaimed a fatwa against bigendianism and promised eternal support for littleendian cpu strictly.
asciilifeform: on bigendian -- such idiocy immediately lethal
asciilifeform: ( on little-endian box, e.g. uint32_t with 'most of the time'-range below 255 will be 'safely' castable to char/uint8_t , and often is... )
asciilifeform: it obstructs in the concealment of c casting bugolade
asciilifeform: also finally found what appears at least on surface to be a knockdown argument ~in favour of bigendianism~ :
asciilifeform: but i see it as really argument against pipelines, not against flags...
asciilifeform spent some time today reading 'risc-v' ( see earlier thread http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-16#1739645 ) proponents' arguments against the carry flag. apparently they're not entirely retarded, flags indeed make pipelineism 10x moarcomplex☝︎
