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<jab>Gooberpatrol66: more info can be found here: https://www.patreon.com/bcachefs/posts/1-38-6-release-161366372
<gasc>Gooberpatrol66: , sneek: I have read the logs, I will be trying on my machines.
<sneek>Welcome back gasc, you have 1 message!
<sneek>gasc, Gooberpatrol66 says: it would be useful to boot hurd on all your machines and record what works and doesn't
<gasc>Tried 2 machines, one get's to grub but won't pass that point, the system freezes; the other don't even get to grub. Those are mother ones 8gen
<gasc>With more time I will be trying more machines, for now I will focus on the usb drivers
<gasc>sneel: later tell Gooberpatrol66: I have tried the 8gen intel (i3 and i5) read the logs of the chat. I will look more deeply on the machines that at least boot. Debian Hurd Netinst iso tested.
<gasc>sneek: later tell Gooberpatrol66: I have tried the 8gen intel (i3 and i5) read the logs of the chat. I will look more deeply on the machines that at least boot. Debian Hurd Netinst iso tested.
<sneek>Got it.
<apzhyn>higuy
<apzhyn>Hi, I'm interested in working on firmware loading support for DDE-glued drivers (libdde_linux26) looking into adding a request_firmware shim. Has anyone started this or is there existing scaffolding I should look at before duplicating work?
<youpi>apzhyn: nobody has worked on it afaik, but I'd recommend rather work on support in rump, since we'll throw dde as soon as possible
<apzhyn>youpi: does any rump driver work exist yet?
<youpi>sure
<youpi>there is rumpnet already
<apzhyn>okay, thanks
<apzhyn>ill look into it
<gnucode>morning pals!
<sneek>Welcome back gnucode, you have 1 message!
<sneek>gnucode, diegonc says: no joke, I'm truly confused why would /dev/null could throw such error or if it is a red herring
<apzhyn>gnucode: good morning!
<gnucode>sneek later tell solid_black apparently Kent Overstreet is encouraging engineers to help him convert bcachefs to rust. You've definitely got the skillset to be useful to him. Phoronix has a new article about some recent updates in bcachefs. Kent's answers to everybody's questions in the forums was super interesting.
<sneek>Okay.
<gnucode>apzhyn: how do you do ?
<gnucode>/ what's happening?
<apzhyn>i'm doing great i guess
<gnucode>that's good. I found myself saying yesterday that I was completely in love with life. I guess Dr. Joe Dispenza's class "Breaking the Habit of being yourself" is working in me.
<gnucode>also, I'm going on a bit of a computer device fast for a week. I'm still defining what that fast will look like...but essentially the only computer that I will use will be my Hurd machine and the computer that I have to use at work.
<gnucode>I have been using my personal nextcloud instance to manage my calendar. It would be really nice to have a way to edit that calendar via the Hurd. I know that Emacs has a way to sync those calendar items via org... I think it's called org-caldav.el
<gnucode>but I would prefer a GTK+ or Qt program...
<gnucode>And I really should try to install guix on Debian. guix home seems sooo awesome.
<gnucode>sneek later tell apzhyn the rump drivers are fairly interesting. rumpnet and rumpssd work just fine. rumpnet + pfinet seems to me to be a bit slow on real hardware. I'm getting 10 - 50 K/s per second. But with rumpnet we can use more recent hardware.
<sneek>Okay.
<gnucode>also, apparently rumpdisk could be tweaked to support nvme drives. You just need to modify some NetBSD makefile stuff.
<apzhyn>gnucode: really nice must i say
<sneek>apzhyn, you have 1 message!
<sneek>apzhyn, gnucode says: the rump drivers are fairly interesting. rumpnet and rumpssd work just fine. rumpnet + pfinet seems to me to be a bit slow on real hardware. I'm getting 10 - 50 K/s per second. But with rumpnet we can use more recent hardware.
<apzhyn>same thing goes to me hah, ive been going more off-screen to see the outside world
<apzhyn>its been awesome