A cross city infrastructure project means each day brings new damage to the road surface, some bits look up to 10 cm deep.
If I wanted to roll the dice on serious injury or death, I'd commute on my track bike..

Upgrade CI toolchain, typo - instead of _ in filename, wake up to a wall of red, whoops.

.config "bisection" is so miserable :(

Been playing through Dragon Age Inquisition, and while it feels a little clunky, it's very much in the same camp as CDPR games where finishing in less than 50 hours feels like doing the game an injustice!

Reading <https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2023/0322/1364404-culture-shock-ireland-language/> made me think about my desire to use distinctly Irish turn of phrase while writing emails etc to a distinctly international audience.
Part of me feels I shouldn't as it is less accessible, but at the same time I live in fear of people thinking I am English or American!

Bugbot status update: it's now able to monitor lore lists and start tracking threads as bugs based on an arbitrary query. E.g. you can mention "bugbot engage" in a thread and the entire thread will be converted to a bugzilla bug (if the email of the person issuing this command matches a bugzilla account with "editbugs" group membership). Any subsequent messages in the thread will be automatically added to the bug as new comments. Any comments posted on the bug via bugzilla interface will be sent to original recipients.

Now working on the other direction -- bugs added in bugzilla will be converted to mailing list threads and sent to proper maintainers (based on certain conditions, e.g. a "bugbot" flag needs to be set to "on" and the cf_subsystem custom field needs to match the corresponding MAINTAINERS entry). Should be done tomorrow, at which point I'll be looking for early testers. :)

Yet another evening staring at alternatives.
What an endless fountain of fun.

Good ole DJ Church killing it at hooker today :)

Sending out patches with internal reviewed by tags seems so meaningless to me.
I've never seen these people before, what do their tags mean?

What that treesitter doin'?

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/risc-v-business-testing-starfives-visionfive-2-sbc

Interesting post from @geerlingguy about the visionfive2, but also a bit of a reflection on the RISC-V software ecosystem in general.

Huh, probably wouldn't have known about this had it not appeared here:
https://social.treehouse.systems/@fox/109938758111808053

Certainly nice for the Lina's of the world, but I wonder how far "known identity" goes. "If I google it, I'll find them"?

https://noc.social/@phoronix/109927186270858469

hah, love the unmatched photo! Better off with a picture of the VisionFive 2 that actually supports the extension ;)

Think I fell victim to a dead Samsung 980 overnight:/

Didn't have the firmware version that's supposedly bad, but system died overnight. Boot was getting stuck decrypting LUKS & now can't even reinstall from a livecd :)

With v6.2 being released the other day, I did a bit of a recap to remind myself of what actually
landed this time around for RISC-V. Figured I may as well share it /shrug

With the V2 on the horizon, Cristian Ciocaltea added the VisionFive v1 DT, which has been a long
time coming! Unfortunately, that platform is still not really supported in mainline and may never
get there given it's reliance on non-coherent DMA that is yet to be supported.
He did post some of the out of tree non-coherent dma patches on the list the other day though, and
while that's unlikely to land anytime soon, I hope it gets there eventually :)

Renesas finally joined the RISC-V party for v6.2, with Geert's PR adding the base DT for the
RZ/Five. This platform *also* relies on non-coherent DMA to be fully supported, but that is
currently a work in progress! That work was done by Lab Prabhakar from Renesas.


Palmer's PR is where the actually interesting stuff happens though...
Binglei Wang added support for rethooks, after a rough start with mailer issues!
Drew Jones, while not reviewing, worked on some nice cleanups to alternatives and extension
handling.
Anup got one of his many new-feature support series over the line for PMEM support.
The T-Head c9xx series cores got support for their non-standard PMU variant upstream thanks to
Heiko who has been somewhat of a champion for that platform.
RV32, not to be left out, landed support for dynamic ftrace. That work was carried out by Jamie
Iles, who, as the 32-bit bpf maintainer, clearly has an interest in that part of the arch.
Support for zstd compressed images gained support also, thanks to the work of Jisheng Zhang.
Tong Tiangen extended support for hugepages, Xianting Tian got the remainder of their
VMCOREINFO series over the line & Lui Shixin got HUGE\_VMA{P,LLOC} support enabled.
Jinyu Tang brought in support for updating the tlb & Hal Feng put the finishing touch on the base
support for the VisionFive v1 by added the serial driver for it.
Notable also is a patch from Cleo John, tidying up some styling, as it was their first :)

A whole bunch of others contributed various bits of cleanup and fixes that landed in the v6.2, PR
and for more on those check out the changelog in Palmer's PR:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/mhng-f76eb33c-7cc1-426f-8f29-37f6bb78baec@palmer-ri-x1c9/

There were also 4 fixes PRs sent out over the course of the merge window, however none of these
really contained anything particularly significant. A lot of attention recently has been centred
around text patching, so it is no surprise that a number of the fixes are there too, with, out of
the 16 total patches in -fixes, 5 were in this area. Other than that, we had a good few general
correctness bits, for sparse warnings etc

@monsieuricon hey Konstantin, b4 question for you: Is there some special case that causes a `b4 shazam -s -t https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y+v%2FYu%2FELfzx954s@spud/` to apply my R-b here without complaining about the email mismatch?

Agreeing with the message but not the delivery I feel is true for many aspects of discussion about the kernel 🙃

Clarkson's farm is such a great belly-laugh inducing show :)

Asking a contributor to resubmit a patchset because they have a v4: above information that totally belongs in the commit history is utterly fucking ridiculous IMO.
The maintainer of a driver/subsystem is not the only person whose time is valuable. /shrug

This phone autocompletes riscv to roadblock