Notices by Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org), page 11

And the first rule of software development: the user's needs come before your desires.

Do not write programs which spy on users. There is no excuse good enough.

Just. Don't.

Q: When is it okay for a program to reach out to the internet?
A: In response to an explicit user request for it to do so.

Q: How much data should be included in network requests?
A: The minimum necessary.

Filled with a burning need to work on six different projects at once

@mntmn which syscall is unhandled?

@mntmn

Re: reg = <0x00000000 0x40000000 0 0xc0000000>; // TODO: confirm what this means

FYI, this means that there's 0xc0000000 bytes of conventional memory starting at address 0x40000000

included imx8mq.dtsi sets address-cells and size-cells to 2, so this is (addr, addr, size, size), each encoded as two 32-bit numbers in big endian

See device tree spec 2.3.5

@mntmn FYI this is also only 3 GiB of RAM... specs suggest it should be 4?

https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2020-05-08-the-much-more-personal-computer.html

@mntmn cool, neat

@mntmn got a device tree for me?

@mntmn any luck with this?

@mntmn EFI implementation (edk2 or u-boot should both work), a device tree, and implementations of relevant drivers (we already have PL011 if that's what your serial port uses)

@mntmn don't get too excited, though, the most interesting thing you're likely to see is the test suite passing on the serial port

@mntmn oh and if your interrupt controller isn't a GIC, that'll need a new driver too

@mntmn I wonder if helios would work :)

FOSDEM slots for Hare & Helios secured 🎉

1/2:

https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/helios/

2/2 to come once the BoF schedule is finalized

>only a bad pilot blames their plane! If they’d read subparagraph 71 of section 7.1.5.5 of the C++, er, 737 spec, they’d know that at 13:51 PM on the vernal equinox the wings fall off the plane

quote from https://borretti.me/article/introducing-austral

Notice: SourceHut will blacklist the Go module mirror

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2023-01-09-gomodulemirror/