#asciilifeform | 2019-11-19

shinohai: you may find interesting (supposing not already eaten) diana_coman's notes re ch. 1--4.

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15:50

http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2019-11-19#1002600 <<< thx for link, will read

15:50

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Logged on 2019-11-19 02:43:58 asciilifeform: shinohai: you may find interesting (supposing not already eaten) diana_coman's notes re ch. 1--4.

15:51

Also, did manage finally to find a stage3 that worx on pogoplug, used: stage3-armv5tel-20180831. (So now can possibly use this for own portage mirror or such)

15:55

shinohai: neato.

15:56

Why I can't just give up on this little board I have no idea :)

16:00

In other interesting gentoo stuff, one of the girls acquired new lappy and I installed gentoo on it. If you try and build trb on it, does not work - glibc causes buildroot step to fail with "error "Please port gnulib fseeko.c to your platform!"

16:09

shinohai: which gentoo ?

16:14

using latest minimal iso: install-x86-minimal-20191115T214503Z.iso

16:15

(mainly to be used for sad tasks, so didn't bother to do proper install)

~ 44 minutes ~

16:59

shinohai: i'd leave anyffin gentoo-flavoured that post-dates '16 or so, alone

17:00

iirc entirely incompat. w/ civilized gcc, after certain date in '16

17:00

nb ... glibc gets more liquidy every passing day anyways.

17:06

shinohai: afaik 32-bit arm is out of print ( with exception of microcontrollers , w/ very modest clock and memory bus ) so arguably dead end there

17:07

at least in re gentooism

17:08

( this is perhaps odd, cuz i still haven't found anyone offering for sale a 64-bit arm that can actually eat >4GB of ram, just yet )

17:09

A 64-bit arm board w/ expandable ram slots would be a very, very nice item.

17:09

there was 1 chinese outfit that supposedly sold one, but at ludicrous price ( i.e. more than 32-cpu 'dulap' ! cost )

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17:50

http://macchiatobin.net/compare/

17:52

https://www.chip1stop.com/USA/en/view/dispDetail/DispDetail?partId=SOCI-0000001&cid=SOCIEB

17:53

oh neat mats ... but phew! US$1,210.00

18:02

mats: i was thinking of the 2nd. the 1st is substantially cheaper but apparently aint an rk. ( does it boot blobless ? last i knew, rk was the only 64-bit arm which did )

18:10

seems like the only way to get an rk w/ expandable dimms is to design w/ own hands & commission it yerself. ( which in turn introduces the q of where the fuck to get a bobbin of rk cpu )

18:10

looked at this 2y ago and came up empty , i suspect for lack of reading chinese

18:14

https://shop.solid-run.com/product/SRLX216S00D00GE064H02CH/

18:14

750 usd ?!

18:14

i'm not sure if any of these are blobless

18:15

if it were priced like orig rk, i'd at least pick one up & try. but this is insane.

18:15

demand is thin so they gotta upcharge, probably

18:17

reminds me of e.g. 'talos' co.

18:20

theres an even pricier honeycomb board with 100gbe if thats your jam

18:20

these golden toilets are quite like rk but with ~none~ of the upsides ( will blobless? no one knows. will fit 48 pieces in 3u? fuckno, is massive brick, needs atx (why?) ps. and costs like 12 orig rk. for what? )

18:30