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The cat is not mine :(

I like cycling, powerlifting, bad video games and metal.
Otherwise, I occupy my time with various bits in RISC-V land.

~useless, placeholder, website: https://www.conchuod.ie/
Whenever I read Nathan Chancellors recaps I always go and look at what
my contributions look like (see https://nathanchance.dev/posts/2023-cbl-retrospective/
for his far more comprehensive retrospective than my own brief look).

In 2023 this is what they looked like:

Authored: 123
Reported: 8
Tested: 29
Acked: 412
Reviewed: 372

In comparison, 2022 looked like:

Authored: 181
Reported: 21
Tested: 28
Acked: 45
Reviewed: 92

Two rather different years in terms of my kernel contributions, that's
for sure. In March or April I started co-maintaining dt-bindings, which
is the reason for the massive growth in terms of ack/review tags.
The number that is there is probably also underselling the amount of
reviewing actually done, since I usually avoid leaving a tag on vN of a
patch when one of the other maintainers already has, even if I spent a
bunch of time reviewing v(N-1).

On another note, the number of reported-by tags dropped considerably - I
like to chalk that up to the riscv port becoming more stable :)
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I updated debian and my terminal font changed. I hate it.
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I'm excited to announce I've joined @olofj's RISC-V Software team at Tenstorrent! If you aren't familiar with Tenstorrent, then check this recent talk from CEO Jim Keller https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPX1H3jW8ZQ

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We're proud to announce the official release of Fedora Asahi Remix! 🎉

Learn more:
https://asahilinux.org/fedora/

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Being in my 20s, I was confused as to why YouTube keeps showing me adverts for toys for young children. I realised all I watch on this particular computer is videos about programming and 10+ year old MMOs and it all started to make a lot of sense.
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Reading some patch discussion today (between two experienced developers/maintainers) and one cracked out a "I believe the kids these days would say '"Say you don't understand the
code without saying you don't understand the code."'

lmao, good one chief
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Krzysztof Kozlowski

I announced it before on social.kernel.org, mailing lists and finally in the Linux kernel (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c25223cba5aa9a536392933782d4a7df71d9093b). So one more time, same announcement:
None of the Samsung and Samsung Foundry platforms can bring any new `dtbs_check W=1` warning.

Contributor can easily test it, so sending code which introduces such warnings is considered close to sending code which does not compile. Fast step to get your maintainer grumpy.
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note to self: stop looking at patches when you are meant to be asleep
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"Detection of individual cryptography extensions uses the unified software-based RISC-V discovery method.

 At the time of writing, these discovery mechanisms are still a work in progress."

...from the documentation for ratified extensions :)
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I see today is iteration N of hating email based workflows. My 0.02 € is that I hate both, clunky aul email and clunky new UIs :)
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I'm extremely reluctant to pass much comment on the Israel/Gaza situation because I grew up in an occupied territory where terrorists frequently targeted civilians and arguably the terrorism eventually resulted in a negotiated peace with a vaguely functioning power sharing arrangement, and I do not want that to be the moral of the story

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It is year 2077.

Computers still use Arm architecture.

Kernel/initramfs image are loaded using TFTP. Still over IPv4.

DeviceTree lives on.

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My x86 box died yesterday after 10 months of using it just fine*, either CPU or mobo being the problem. Pain in the arse, but also gonna force me to actually configure my newly acquired arm64 laptop. Good a time as any to give sway a shot too I suppose!

* apart from having to run EXPO to boot, /sigh
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Having always flown Ryanair short haul in Europe, my last two flights have been early morning Aer Lingus and Luthansa. It's so strange to me to see flights not only not at maximum capacity, but well under 2/3 of it
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Asahi Linux is now shipping the world's first standards conformant GPU driver for Apple M1/M2! 🎉​

https://rosenzweig.io/blog/first-conformant-m1-gpu-driver.html

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"REVISIT ... this would be for multiplexing periodic endpoints, or supporting transfer phasing to prevent exceeding ISO bandwidth limits of a given frame or microframe."
Written in 2008, guess that never happened!
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I get quite disorienting deja vu sometimes with patches, and it is always when I have seen the code (or something close to it) ages ago in another submission.
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I got a macbook the other week, was kinda holding out to see if the distro switch was gonna happen so that I could avoid using arch linux arm :)

https://social.treehouse.systems/@AsahiLinux/110820555355208044
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Go to try and debug someone's boot issue, have to recompile the boards firmware to run a mainline kernel, which effectively meant recompiling U-Boot too. Vendor U-Boot seems to need a customer compiler, that's the end of me caring about helping with that.
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