Nekonomicon - ivelegacy

ivelegacy
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Who joined Jan. 4, 2015, 5:12 a.m.

Wrote on the subject of Military Software at Dec. 14, 2015, 5:19 a.m...

deja vu, already said by a girl in black from Windriver, when I asked her phone number

she asks: why?
I answered: emmm emmm to talk about .... Windriver products, ofcourse, perhaps also about your shoe heels (15cm, at least)
and she said: in this case I'd have to kill you

so - BIG MISTAKE - I offered my phone number, including my name and surname, with a smile - call me, maybe -
and, the next day, it happened my desk got moved to an other place (25Km far from her) :lol:

lesson learned: never ask & provide the phone number to woman in black with strange shoe heels,
and never ask about her products, especially if she claims to work for Windriver

have fun

ivelegacy
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Wrote on the subject of RiscPC, second slice & locker-pins at Dec. 14, 2015, 8:35 a.m...

so, I am still looking for a good second slice for my Risc PC/600 with locker-pins
I have been a good boy for all the year, so … make me an happy boy under the xmas tree

thank you Red Dad

Some prowling the streets, looking for sweets from their Candyman , I'm Looking for a new fun with IP30/Octane2
IP30 purposes : linux (kernel development), Irix Scientific Apps { Ansys, Catia, Pro/E, FiberSIM, AutoDYNþ, ... }
Other Projects : { Cerberus , Woody Box , 68K-board, SWI_DBG }, discontinued Console hacks { GB, GBA, PSX1 }
Wanted Equipments : { U1732C LCR meter by Keysight } ~ ~ I am still Learning English, be patient with me ~ ~
about me , there are just a few things to know: I am exuberant , and I love the urban dictionary : is it a problem ?!?

ivelegacy
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Wrote on the subject of Indigo2 R10K / 384MB / HighIMPACT at Dec. 14, 2015, 4:07 p.m...

Ian is super

hey oh? Swimming pool & Racing bicycle.

ivelegacy
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Wrote on the subject of who is on Gentoo/MIPS_SGI ? at Dec. 15, 2015, 3:23 a.m...

Kumba wrote: How old is your initramfs?

built in 2009
multi arch[]={ ppc/G3, mips3/be, x86/i586 }
used everywhere with my routers, Cerberus, etc

no reason to update, since now

Kumba wrote: The problems I ran into on the Octane were Data Bus Errors (DBE), not IBEs

it works with SMP=disabled

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   CONFIG_SMP=is not set
   

   CONFIG_SYS_SUPPORTS_SMP=is not set
   

   CONFIG_NR_CPUS=is not set

it does not work properly with SMP=enabled

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   CONFIG_SMP=y
   

   CONFIG_SYS_SUPPORTS_SMP=y
   

   CONFIG_NR_CPUS=2

Kumba wrote: and those were solved once I learned to use the correct handle_*_irq() function

isn't kernel affair ? is the users pace also involved ?
can you tell me more ?

Kumba wrote: I'm wondering if you've got that initramfs built using really old toolchains/kernel headers and it's just not playing nice

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   kika # uname -r
   

   2.6.39-flesh-eating-bats

she has

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   kika # gcc-config -l
   

   [1] mips-unknown-linux-gnu-4.1.2 *
   

   [2] mips-unknown-linux-gnu-4.5.2
   

   [3] mips-unknown-linux-gnu-4.6.3

I used gcc- v4.1.2, uclibc profiled (cross compiler, mips3-be-glibc ---> mips3-be-uclibc)
and I can reuse my OpenWrt builder (kernel v4.2.*, gcc v4.6.*)

do you have a "demo" version ?
do you have a good ram-rootfs ?

is there a good & updated version of gentoo-stage3-mips3-be-uclibc ?
I haven't checked yet

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   CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE="/mnt/diske-source/gentoo/rootfs/mips/3/be-uclibc"
   

   CONFIG_INITRAMFS_ROOT_UID=0
   

   CONFIG_INITRAMFS_ROOT_GID=0
   

   CONFIG_RD_GZIP=y
   

   CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y

my ram-rootfs is included within the kernel

bye.

ivelegacy
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Wrote on the subject of Hell actually exists, proofs of existence, the computer science is not a safe place, Gcc attempts your soul at Dec. 15, 2015, 3:43 a.m...

so we have the prove that

______ H old
____________ O n,
__________________ P ains
________________________ E nd

Hell actually exists :lol:

CeLeBrAtIoN!
Happy Hell Party Reloaded

hey oh? Swimming pool & Racing bicycle.

ivelegacy
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Wrote on the subject of who is on Gentoo/MIPS_SGI ? at Dec. 15, 2015, 3:50 a.m...

Kumba wrote: Not following what you're asking here?

I haven't understood if "handle_*_irq() function" is related only to the kernel
or if it has a relation with the userspace, and in case where/what?

is it related to "something" in libc? some kernel-helper?

Kumba wrote: make sure your binaries are compiled for MIPS-III or MIPS-IV at a minimum, and that no mips32rX/mips64rX stuff snuck in by accident.

they are mips3

bye.

ivelegacy
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Wrote on the subject of RiscPC, second slice & locker-pins at Dec. 16, 2015, 3:16 p.m...

ajw99uk wrote: Have you tried posting this request on comp.sys.acorn.hardware

done

ajw99uk wrote: unless you need to move the machine often or want to mount it on its side

It needs to stand up and looks at its own feet in order to look like a tower

Some prowling the streets, looking for sweets from their Candyman , I'm Looking for a new fun with IP30/Octane2
IP30 purposes : linux (kernel development), Irix Scientific Apps { Ansys, Catia, Pro/E, FiberSIM, AutoDYNþ, ... }
Other Projects : { Cerberus , Woody Box , 68K-board, SWI_DBG }, discontinued Console hacks { GB, GBA, PSX1 }
Wanted Equipments : { U1732C LCR meter by Keysight } ~ ~ I am still Learning English, be patient with me ~ ~
about me , there are just a few things to know: I am exuberant , and I love the urban dictionary : is it a problem ?!?

ivelegacy
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Wrote on the subject of RiscPC, second slice & locker-pins at Dec. 17, 2015, 12:58 a.m...

ebay dot uk has a 2sliced for sale

pros:
2 slices and locker pins !!!!!!!! YeAhhhh !!!!!!!!!
v4.39/adjust in ROM, even if I have already bought & burned mine

cons:
Cmos battery leakage (to be removed for the sooner, it's corrosive!!!)
poor ram as both DDE & gcc take up to 24 Mbyte of ram, but I already have a 128Mbyte set (2x64Mbyte) ready to be installed

the shipping price is ~£34
I doubt the final price will stay under the definition "good deal"
but I'm tempted 'cause It might be

Some prowling the streets, looking for sweets from their Candyman , I'm Looking for a new fun with IP30/Octane2
IP30 purposes : linux (kernel development), Irix Scientific Apps { Ansys, Catia, Pro/E, FiberSIM, AutoDYNþ, ... }
Other Projects : { Cerberus , Woody Box , 68K-board, SWI_DBG }, discontinued Console hacks { GB, GBA, PSX1 }
Wanted Equipments : { U1732C LCR meter by Keysight } ~ ~ I am still Learning English, be patient with me ~ ~
about me , there are just a few things to know: I am exuberant , and I love the urban dictionary : is it a problem ?!?

ivelegacy
From Italy
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Wrote on the subject of RiscPC, second slice & locker-pins at Dec. 17, 2015, 12:24 p.m...

I do not know your board, never heard, even if it sounds interesting

there is a precise reason for my RiscPC: the Gemini Chip !
It allows the use of a x86 PC card under MSDOS v6.22!
powered with a 486DX4@100Mhz and able to fully access the parallel port(1) and serial port(2)

these two are perfect to convert the RiscPC into a solid and useful 332 development station!
more comfortable than a genuine DOS station!

the alternative is OS/2 Warp3, which allows a fully DOS emulation
while Windows 95 and XP fails the the 332 software, already tried

I have an original SierraC toolchain, plus a full BDM set of tools (hw debugger)
and as "bonus" RiscOS offers a pretty and simple way to develop interfaces

in this case the last DDE is required

I need the second slice in order to install my 332 board inside the RiscPC(3), as I like to have a compact solution on my desk!

(1) used by the BDM engine
(2) used by the TAP engine
(3) it has been mooted inside a box with has the same form factor of a CDROM drive in 5"1/4

~~~~~

It seems that dudes @ cjemicros have some used RiscPC second slice kits in stock!
their kit includes: Acorn Risc PC used second case slice, two slice Pins, EMC Gasket, and feet for vertical mounting
(a bit expensive, 55UKP, plus 13UKP, ~70UKP shipped)

Some prowling the streets, looking for sweets from their Candyman , I'm Looking for a new fun with IP30/Octane2
IP30 purposes : linux (kernel development), Irix Scientific Apps { Ansys, Catia, Pro/E, FiberSIM, AutoDYNþ, ... }
Other Projects : { Cerberus , Woody Box , 68K-board, SWI_DBG }, discontinued Console hacks { GB, GBA, PSX1 }
Wanted Equipments : { U1732C LCR meter by Keysight } ~ ~ I am still Learning English, be patient with me ~ ~
about me , there are just a few things to know: I am exuberant , and I love the urban dictionary : is it a problem ?!?

ivelegacy
From Italy
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Wrote on the subject of RiscPC, second slice & locker-pins at Dec. 20, 2015, 12:31 p.m...

sold for ~ 200UKP :shock:

next time I will be lucky

Some prowling the streets, looking for sweets from their Candyman , I'm Looking for a new fun with IP30/Octane2
IP30 purposes : linux (kernel development), Irix Scientific Apps { Ansys, Catia, Pro/E, FiberSIM, AutoDYNþ, ... }
Other Projects : { Cerberus , Woody Box , 68K-board, SWI_DBG }, discontinued Console hacks { GB, GBA, PSX1 }
Wanted Equipments : { U1732C LCR meter by Keysight } ~ ~ I am still Learning English, be patient with me ~ ~
about me , there are just a few things to know: I am exuberant , and I love the urban dictionary : is it a problem ?!?

ivelegacy
From Italy
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Wrote on the subject of fuel R16000 800MHz 4GB V10 - I am complete! at Dec. 21, 2015, 4:45 a.m...

Congrats, buddy

even if the title is deceiving, "I am completed" sounds like you were speaking about the day after xmas
when you has already enjoyed the lunch with rum at the end

"do you want more panettone(1), to be drenched with mascarpone(2) & rum ?" (typical question, near Milan)
and so the typical answer after xmas "no, I am fine, I am completed, thanks"

(1) Panettone is a type of cupola shape sweet bread loaf originally from Milan
usually prepared and enjoyed for Christmas and New Year in Italy
(2) Mascarpone is a soft white Italian cheese cream often used in desserts, sometimes (typically for xmas) with rum
used in various Lombardy (around Milan) dishes, and is considered a speciality in the region

bye.

ivelegacy
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Wrote on the subject of who is on Gentoo/MIPS_SGI ? at Dec. 21, 2015, 6:20 a.m...

Kumba wrote: My thinking at the moment is, you've just got an incompatibility between the really old code of your initramfs, likely built against 2.6.x kernel headers or such, and the 4.3.x nature of the current kernel.

I can say "no!". It randomly works, and randomly fails, which sounds related to the kernel (more specifically to the SMP, with no SMP enabled I have no issue, it never fails), perhaps something wrong or missing with the SMP initialization.

Kumba wrote: I run 64KB PAGE_SIZE on the Octane right now, as it helps speed compiles up by reducing TLB pressure. musl couldn't handle that well, though

I am on 4Kbyte PAGE_SIZE, with 64KB it crashes soon :shock:

Currently, where is your rootfs ? Attached to an external scsi bus ? NFS imported ?

I wish I could enter into the vegetable garden of William Gibson , on the right of a director, to decide how a film is ultimately released for public viewing, but I am not a nor Cyberpunk writer neither a dude in Hollywood , and my * flawless English * still looks like an old rusty trailer which needs a fix-up, so my personal wonderland begins with a pill ... tumbling down the rabbit hole , where the sky above the router port is the color of television, tuned to a dead channel and some gears still need a debugger there.

ivelegacy
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Wrote on the subject of fuel R16000 800MHz 4GB V10 - I am complete! at Dec. 21, 2015, 8:44 a.m...

* * we * * want

a DCD for his Fuel
a DCD for my IP30

bye.

ivelegacy
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Wrote on the subject of Octane2, 2x600MHz R14K, 4Gig ram, V12+DCD/V10 (updated 21/12/2015) at Dec. 21, 2015, 1:25 p.m...

Jack Luminous wrote: Latest upgrade : dual VPRO carrier installed with V12+V10

why dual GFX ? specific application need ?

I wish I could enter into the vegetable garden of William Gibson , on the right of a director, to decide how a film is ultimately released for public viewing, but I am not a nor Cyberpunk writer neither a dude in Hollywood , and my * flawless English * still looks like an old rusty trailer which needs a fix-up, so my personal wonderland begins with a pill ... tumbling down the rabbit hole , where the sky above the router port is the color of television, tuned to a dead channel and some gears still need a debugger there.

ivelegacy
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Wrote on the subject of Octane2, 2x600MHz R14K, 4Gig ram, V12+DCD/V10 (updated 21/12/2015) at Dec. 21, 2015, 2:16 p.m...

eheheh understood, how hard is to find a dual carrier ? Luckily, for my application I just need two identical LCDs, so, the DCD is fine

I just wonder about the above posts. You guys were speaking about troubles with the setup, I still have to buy two identical LCDs, and probably they will be DVI built-in. Any suggestion ? Warning ? Advice ?

I wish I could enter into the vegetable garden of William Gibson , on the right of a director, to decide how a film is ultimately released for public viewing, but I am not a nor Cyberpunk writer neither a dude in Hollywood , and my * flawless English * still looks like an old rusty trailer which needs a fix-up, so my personal wonderland begins with a pill ... tumbling down the rabbit hole , where the sky above the router port is the color of television, tuned to a dead channel and some gears still need a debugger there.

ivelegacy
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Wrote on the subject of assembly to flush I | D caches at Dec. 21, 2015, 2:38 p.m...

I am looking for a piece of good code to invalidate and flush Instruction and Data caches in { R10K, R12K, R14K }
do you happen to have it on hand ?

have fun

ivelegacy
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Wrote on the subject of assembly to flush I | D caches at Dec. 22, 2015, 12:44 a.m...

nyef wrote: See MIPS Run (first edition) says that the R10k has an R4000-style cache

I do not have a copy on hand, I have an hardcover (paper) copy but it's not on hand (250 Km far from where I am) so I am going to buy an ebook for my kindle, this way you always have a copy on hand when you need a lecture, example, or MIPSfun

nyef wrote: Presumably the Linux kernel source could be a resource

Uboot has source for MIPS, and it's bare metal. Unfortunately these guys are not so good in keeping their rooms organized, that due to the more complexity they have in supporting a lot of architectures ( ppc, mips, arm ), with a lot of sub classes (mips by NEC, by IDT, by ATHEROS, …..)

and the resulting code-tree is a bit confusing if you are not already expected in MIPS details.

Linux is too bloated, up to 60 Mbyte of sources, I find myself drowning in all their clutter and a bit tired of having to dig through a lot of sources with a lot of #IFDEF to find the article of good source I need!

nyef wrote: although if you're looking for code to compare that with for debug purposes then that's just sending you back to your starting point

yes, ironically it's debug purposes on the linux kernel in the final step

have fun

ivelegacy
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Wrote on the subject of PowerPC440, codename "Ebony" still available at Dec. 22, 2015, 4:46 a.m...

I was contacted by a few dudes who want a PowerPC dev board with a jtag

I can offer a few PowerPC 405GP board to be used with a buffered Wiggler ClonedCable (& you can build by yourself)

I have successfully built one of these cables and I had success when I bricked one of my boards due to a failure in Uboot cooking (flash programming)

I have no other resources, guys, sorry!

hey oh? Swimming pool & Racing bicycle.

ivelegacy
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Wrote on the subject of who is on Gentoo/MIPS_SGI ? at Dec. 22, 2015, 7:33 a.m...

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   /bin/bash:     ELF 32-bit MSB executable, MIPS, MIPS-III version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, uses shared libs
   

   /bin/busybox:  ELF 32-bit MSB executable, MIPS, MIPS-I   version 1 (SYSV), statically linked

busybox has been compiled as "MIPS-I", can cause problems on a MIPS-IV machine ?
R12K claims to be

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   isa                     : mips2 mips3 mips4

I am going to recompile it as MIPS-III

I have also modified my rootfs to work with an hard drive instead of running within ramfs

I wish I could enter into the vegetable garden of William Gibson , on the right of a director, to decide how a film is ultimately released for public viewing, but I am not a nor Cyberpunk writer neither a dude in Hollywood , and my * flawless English * still looks like an old rusty trailer which needs a fix-up, so my personal wonderland begins with a pill ... tumbling down the rabbit hole , where the sky above the router port is the color of television, tuned to a dead channel and some gears still need a debugger there.

ivelegacy
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Wrote on the subject of who is on Gentoo/MIPS_SGI ? at Dec. 22, 2015, 10:41 a.m...

nyef wrote: MIPS-II is MIPS-I plus a handful of new instructions plus pipeline interlocks to eliminate some of the hazards

I wonder if these new instructions & pipeline interlocks introduced by MIPS-II && MIPS-III && MIPS-IV to eliminate some of the hazards, are exposing a "weakness" within the spin-lock in the kernel-SMP, as I still and randomly get Instruction Bus Error on CPU1.

There is also this problem about stages: no man power to build them!

I wish I could enter into the vegetable garden of William Gibson , on the right of a director, to decide how a film is ultimately released for public viewing, but I am not a nor Cyberpunk writer neither a dude in Hollywood , and my * flawless English * still looks like an old rusty trailer which needs a fix-up, so my personal wonderland begins with a pill ... tumbling down the rabbit hole , where the sky above the router port is the color of television, tuned to a dead channel and some gears still need a debugger there.

ivelegacy
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Wrote on the subject of Tezro deal at Dec. 23, 2015, 7:05 a.m...

uunix wrote: Man up and buy what you want..... unless she doesn't agree that is!

emmmmmm at the beginning she claimed: submissive men, women in power
currently the politically correct situation is: equal in power(1)

(1) don't let her know that I have the full control of her attic, my IP30 is properly hidden there :lol:

Some prowling the streets, looking for sweets from their Candyman , I'm Looking for a new fun with IP30/Octane2
IP30 purposes : linux (kernel development), Irix Scientific Apps { Ansys, Catia, Pro/E, FiberSIM, AutoDYNþ, ... }
Other Projects : { Cerberus , Woody Box , 68K-board, SWI_DBG }, discontinued Console hacks { GB, GBA, PSX1 }
Wanted Equipments : { U1732C LCR meter by Keysight } ~ ~ I am still Learning English, be patient with me ~ ~
about me , there are just a few things to know: I am exuberant , and I love the urban dictionary : is it a problem ?!?

ivelegacy
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Wrote on the subject of .o°' Merry Christmas '°o. at Dec. 24, 2015, 1:23 p.m...

Merry Xmas & Happy Unpacking New Toys Under The Tree !
Tomorrow I will unpack mine!
There is a papilio under the blinking bulb-lights

have fun

ivelegacy
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Wrote on the subject of Octane2 | Dual 600mhz | 3.5GB | Dual Head V12/DCD at Dec. 25, 2015, 3:02 p.m...

where have you found the dual carrier

?

bye.

ivelegacy
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Wrote on the subject of .o°' Merry Christmas '°o. at Dec. 27, 2015, 3:10 a.m...

I guess the little man which figures like a Dwarf Green Hulk is very angry because he can't read my " Santa Claus comes from Atlantis " Xfile

Sorry Red Dwarf, please understand that -filmmaking- involves a number of discrete stages including an initial story, idea, or commission, through script writing, casting, shooting, sound recording and reproduction, editing, and screening the finished product before an audience that may result in a film release and exhibition && I got filmmaking pressures and my post got evaporated in a whistle :lol:

Gillian Anderson, aka Dana Scully, && she works for FBI

since I quoted "Gillian Anderson" as my preferred actress in my The 5 Stages of Shooting a Film Scene which I am shooting in my head, emmm it's not porno, it's the best Xfile ever, my GaGa friend has become jealous (she is redhead) and Santa Claus has threatened a few bad intentions to take hostile action against me in retribution for something done or not done (the real reason is that he doesn't want to make you know that he comes from Atlantis, and that his sledge is an old military weapon, powered by steam and sugar

so pssssssssss keep it secret as never said, I do not want to start the new year with a citation in court

)

hey oh? Swimming pool & Racing bicycle.

ivelegacy
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Wrote on the subject of Octane2 | Dual 600mhz | 3.5GB | Dual Head V12/DCD at Dec. 27, 2015, 4:20 a.m...

DaJuice wrote: It came with the system, I haven't made any upgrades to it

lucky man

vishnu wrote: My Octane2 was a boring 400MHz V6

my gentoo/IP30 has no GFX, I have installed an empty carrier

bye.

ivelegacy
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Wrote on the subject of .o°' Merry Christmas '°o. at Dec. 27, 2015, 4:27 a.m...

sorry sir, my Ocatne2 said that you are wrong

hey oh? Swimming pool & Racing bicycle.

ivelegacy
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Wrote on the subject of Octane2 | Dual 600mhz | 3.5GB | Dual Head V12/DCD at Dec. 27, 2015, 10:15 a.m...

vishnu wrote: you'll jump right onto the open source xserver for VPRO and MARDIGRAS

no-no, I guess never again (like happened in 2009 when I had X11 running with V6). I can emerge X11&its X-stuff and use a remote Xserver, or an Xterm, however the IP30 is physically hidden in the attic and profiled as "server", so it's definitely remotely used over the lan and I export X-stuff on my book-air through XQuartz (the best macOSX's App ever

)

I wish I could enter into the vegetable garden of William Gibson , on the right of a director, to decide how a film is ultimately released for public viewing, but I am not a nor Cyberpunk writer neither a dude in Hollywood , and my * flawless English * still looks like an old rusty trailer which needs a fix-up, so my personal wonderland begins with a pill ... tumbling down the rabbit hole , where the sky above the router port is the color of television, tuned to a dead channel and some gears still need a debugger there.

ivelegacy
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Wrote on the subject of .o°' Merry Christmas '°o. at Dec. 27, 2015, 12:44 p.m...

guardian452 wrote: Computer graphics, just to do her hair
To wash her body, she uses compressed air
A ruby laser, just to paint her face
To keep her back straight, she has a Meta Base

She is so strong, she never cries
There are no secrets in her x-ray eyes
And when we talk, she don’t talk back
‘cause she’s my cybernetic sister, and that’s alright

She’s never tired, she can dance all night
She charges up, under neon light
She don’t get hot when we make love at night
She’s air conditioned, she keeps her temperature right

She is so strong, she never cries
There are no secrets in her x-ray eyes
And when we talk, she won’t talk back
‘cause she’s my cybernetic sister, and that’s alright

Ooooh, she never tells me lies
Ooooh, she’ll always sympathize
But ooooh, those aluminium thighs
There’s nothing like being cybernetically satisfied

{robot voice}
Hi, I am your cybernetic sister
And I am here to ensure that you are cybernetically satisfied
Enjoy me
Enjoy me
Enjoy me

They say machines just cannot feel
They’re printed circuits, and magnetic fields
Well here is something you just won’t believe
This heap of junk is in love with me

She is so strong, she never cries
There are no secrets in her x-ray eyes
And when we talk, she won’t talk back
‘cause she’s my cybernetic sister, and that’s alright

She is so strong, she never cries
There are no secrets in her x-ray eyes
And when we talk, she won’t talk back
‘cause she’s my cybernetic sister, and that’s alright

Heh,
You know, she says, I don’t want you, message understood
She does everything that she would expect a good girl should
She don’t get hot when we make love at night
She’ll give up without a fight

{robot voice orgasm}

so we have THE soundtrack :lol:

hey Disney MovieMakers (including StarWars VII)? be worried

hey oh? Swimming pool & Racing bicycle.

ivelegacy
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Wrote on the subject of Cavium Octeon, mips64, tempted at Dec. 27, 2015, 1 p.m...

ERLite-3 , it's ~{100..120} Euro from Amazon | Ebay

it's an SMP, dual core Cavium Octeon, MIPS64, and comes with 3 GigaE plus 1 hidden (inside the case) USB
(plus a strange RJ45 serial port, so, do not forget to buy an adaptor to RS232, Amazon has it, it costs 10..15 USD)
has some already tried it ? in case, feedbacks ? can you run nbench and report ?

bye.

ivelegacy
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Wrote on the subject of Cavium Octeon, mips64, tempted at Dec. 27, 2015, 1:28 p.m...

DB9M RJ45 kit

robespierre wrote: I'd be surprised if the RJ45 was a different pinout from the one used on every Cisco router and just about everything else. Converters are a dime a dozen.

usually these kits allow you to have customized wiring

robespierre wrote: Does the version of linux in that link support the crypto engines in the Octeon? There are content filter engines (hardware regex) as well.

I do not know how good it the kernel support.
I am not interested in crypto engines.
and the offered rootfs (in the above link) is gentoo stage3-mips64-be-glibc
it means no crypto-engine support by default, you have to modify the profile (change USEflags) and remerge things

bye.

ivelegacy
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Wrote on the subject of .o°' Merry Christmas '°o. at Dec. 28, 2015, 3:33 a.m...

uunix wrote: 9 billion people

not 9 billion people, but a lot of people in UK eat the traditional xmas dish
so, has found a few recipes and set of instructions
GaGa is now going to cook The British Mince Pie

and there is nothing wrong with that

(___but!___ call the firefighters in advance !!!
last time that she burned the chicken
the kitchen was going to burn, OMG!)

hey oh? Swimming pool & Racing bicycle.

ivelegacy
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Wrote on the subject of Cavium Octeon, mips64, tempted at Dec. 28, 2015, 11:45 a.m...

interesting question: to be, or not to be, Cavium's SDK addicted

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ivelegacy
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Wrote on the subject of Cavium Octeon, mips64, tempted at Dec. 28, 2015, 5:35 p.m...

miod wrote: It's crap

why? I mean, PROs & CONs with them ?

PROs: if the Octeon's toy works, then it could help my poor IP30
which eats too much electricity so it's allowed to be Powered-ON only for a few hours a day

they could share the same rootfs

miod wrote: but they're not giving you much choice if you intend your code to be portable to all Octeon families

mmm Octeon'ISA seems compatible with { mips1, mips2, mips3, mips4, mips64r2 }
so in first place I can recycle the job I have done for Atheros RS/P (mips1) and SGI/IP30 (mips4)

even if it seems (I have to check) they have advanced instructions not covered by mips64-unknown-linux-gnu

kernel that comes with the board is a modified 2.6.32.13 one. If you ever want to rebuild it yourself from the GPL archive, you need a mips64-octeon-linux-gnu toolchain that comes with the Cavium SDK. Typical distro toolchains (mips64-unknonwn-*) will fail to compile these kernel sources with errors like these:

root #make ARCH=mips CROSS_COMPILE=mips64-unknown-linux-gnu-

Code: Select all
Error: Opcode not supported on this processor: octeon (mips64r2) `saa $6,($7) Error: Opcode not supported on this processor: octeon (mips64r2) `saa $9,($7) Error: Opcode not supported on this processor: octeon (mips64r2) `saa $3,($7)

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ivelegacy
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Wrote on the subject of Cavium Octeon, mips64, tempted at Dec. 29, 2015, 2:43 a.m...

miod wrote: I'm not so sure about that. Octeon lack coprocessor 1, i.e. the FPU. So either you need to have proper FPU emulation in the kernel

kernel FPU emulation, my RS/P(1) has no FPU, and I am sometimes (too often) using it to compile things for my IP30
to compile the kernel it takes 5 hours, while my IP30 2xR12K@400 takes 40 minutes, just to compare the cpupower
but RS/P eats less than 10Watt of electricity, while my IP30 eats up to 400Watt :shock:

btw, for the FPU staff I am using this wicked trick

see what my RS/P dmesg | grep "FPU" says

Code: Select all


   FPU: CPU has no floating point unit
   

   FPU: IEEE754 floating MIPS floating point support provided as kernel float emulation
   

   FPU: you'll get much better performance by compiling with -msoft-float!

(1) Atheros AR7161 rev 2, MIPS32r2 core

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ivelegacy
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Wrote on the subject of IBM POWER Systems Overview at Dec. 29, 2015, 7:31 a.m...

I have found this page while I was googling for TLB & Cache used in MIPS-* architectures :shock:

what the frog does it matter with POWER-4 & 5 ? Only Hell & Google now, but it's a funny page

hey oh? Swimming pool & Racing bicycle.

ivelegacy
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Wrote on the subject of IBM POWER Systems Overview at Dec. 29, 2015, 8:05 a.m...

the funny part of the story is that the webpage comes with a pretty list of tools-name for AIX

(oh, and a few machine-porno pictures

)

hey oh? Swimming pool & Racing bicycle.

ivelegacy
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Wrote on the subject of IBM POWER Systems Overview at Dec. 29, 2015, 8:21 a.m...

good point, The Heater

!

hey oh? Swimming pool & Racing bicycle.

ivelegacy
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Wrote on the subject of I bought a thing and now my money is gone at Dec. 30, 2015, 3:53 a.m...

miod wrote: I don't have room for such a machine and this wouldn't be a reasonable decision.

resources[]={ room, electricity, time, … }
so I prefer to be focused only on IP30

I wish I could enter into the vegetable garden of William Gibson , on the right of a director, to decide how a film is ultimately released for public viewing, but I am not a nor Cyberpunk writer neither a dude in Hollywood , and my * flawless English * still looks like an old rusty trailer which needs a fix-up, so my personal wonderland begins with a pill ... tumbling down the rabbit hole , where the sky above the router port is the color of television, tuned to a dead channel and some gears still need a debugger there.

ivelegacy
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Wrote on the subject of Cavium Octeon, mips64, tempted at Dec. 30, 2015, 1:29 p.m...

I need that machine to compile and cook stages for Octane, & the reason is that it eats less electricity
I do not need FPU, and in case the kernel FPU-emulation-trick is good enough

the point is: how fast is it (I'd like to see a benchmark) & how good is USB engine?

bye.

ivelegacy
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Wrote on the subject of Cavium Octeon, mips64, tempted at Dec. 31, 2015, 2:46 a.m...

nyef wrote: Can it run with a USB hub and an external disk

if theres a full EHCI inside the chip, then it depends on the kernel support.
(need to be recompiled with HUB enabled)

bye.

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