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<damo22>i may have found a bug in qemu's timer emulation for PIT

<damo22>recompiling now

<damo22>fixed

<damo22>the one-shot mode of PIT is broken in qemu

<damo22> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2023-02/msg07549.html ive submitted a patch to qemu

<trollge>Greetings.

<damo22>lissobone: are you really a bot or just pretending to be one?

<lissobone>I am pretending to be one.

<damo22>why

<lissobone>It just turns out that I really like to say "Greetings" every time I greet someone.

<lissobone>It's not funny anymore.

<lissobone>And I also love Dr. Emacs.

<lissobone>I did a little trolling with him.

<lissobone>But let's get back to the topic.

<damo22>i fixed a bug in qemu that makes the PIT timer able to calibrate the apic timer

<lissobone>I tried Guix GNU/Hurd in qemu. At some point it threw an error, also showing the line.

<lissobone>hurdsig.c:964: post_signal: Unexpected error: (ipc/send) invalid

<lissobone> destination port.

<lissobone>Perhaps it's time for me to study the source code.

<damo22>i find it inconvenient to use guix to develop hurd

<damo22>i would say most if not all of the development happens on the debian port

<damo22>and that makes guix lag behind just because its not as actively developed

<lissobone>Well, I asked myself a question if a system can be fully GNU, using only Hurd and GNU software to run(with no graphical server). That's what brought me yesterday to try Guix GNU/Hurd in a virtual machine.

<damo22>try debian gnu/hurd in a vm

<lissobone>I understand that it might not be what I was looking for, but I was just curious.

<lissobone>Hmm, Debian...

<damo22>it works out of the box

<damo22>you can download a vm image from the topic if you just want to boot it

<lissobone>I am aware, that's what I am doing now.

<lissobone>Wow, 10 MB per second?

<damo22>Xorg runs in hurd with VESA driver

<lissobone>It has booted.

<lissobone>I already like it.

<damo22>:D

<lissobone>I see a nice opportunity to troll geeks who have never heard of GNU and say that they are on Linux.

<lissobone>(Linux, the kernel).

<lissobone>And I am also reading the translator_primer.

<damo22>we're working on 64 bit support and smp

<lissobone>I will study the code. Maybe I can help. There will also be quite a lot for me to learn.

<damo22>currently the image you have is 32 bit and only one core

<damo22>we're almost there

<lissobone>Hmm. Traslators are interesting. They remind me of links in a filesystem.

<lissobone>I have started the X server.

<lissobone>The wallpaper is funny.

<lissobone>It's ironic.

<lissobone>I will try to compile Emacs.

<lissobone>Or at least run it.

<lissobone>My heart has skipped a beat.

<Pellescours>damo22: nice for the PIT fix. I checked quickly linux and xnu, and they use the 3rd modebof lapic timer to configure it. But I don't understand how it works

<damo22>3rd mode of lapic timer?

<damo22>or PIT

<Pellescours>tsc deadline mode

<Pellescours>3rd mode of lapic timer

<damo22>ok

<Pellescours>is speed better with times fix ?

<Pellescours>i mean is smp speed still not normal?

<damo22>the timestamps are better but the speed is the same

<Pellescours>:/

<lissobone>Hi.

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