Lots of recent picolibc news:
* Oliver Stannard at ARM got testing running on the FVP emulator for more rigorous AARCH64 validation.
* Eduard Tanase fixed a bunch of documentation issues.
* Joel Holdsworth added OpenRisc support.
* Jiaxun Yang fixed my janky tools situation by creating picolibc-ci-tools which auto-builds all of the extra bits we need for CI. They also add LoongArch and LatticeMico32 support. The latter uncovered GCC bugs which I had fun fixing.
Thanks to all of you!
📣 All Systems Go! 2025 will take place Sept 30th-Oct 1st. We are excited to move back to the venue we held the event at for the first 3 years, Alte-Münze in the heart of Berlin along the river Spree.
The 🗣️ CFP opens and 🎟️ ticket sales start in mid-March.
🎗️ If your organization wants to sponsor, please reach out.
A bit of a retrospective on #Incus in 2024 and what to look forward to in 2025!
https://stgraber.org/2025/01/04/incus-in-2024-and-beyond/
#LLVM Had Another Exciting Year With More Than 37k Commits, 35.5 Million Lines
util-linux has merged support for statmount() and listmount() to list mounts:
https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/pull/3092#event-15865684400
This should be a nice performance improvement.
See https://brauner.io/2024/12/16/list-all-mounts.html for some details on listmount() and statmount().
It's a gamma compensated neutron ionisation chamber!
Basically two chambers in one, sharing one electrode. One chamber is coated in boron to make it neutron sensitive, the other isn't and with some clever wiring of both chambers you can make sure the current on the shared electrode is just from neutrons, regardless of the gamma background!
You'll typically find these very close to a reactor core, used for measuring power.
I've written a post that shows how to list all mounts in all mount namespaces (all mounts on the system) using new apis we added to the #vfs last year.
Here's a blog story with the links to all those #systemd257 stories on Mastodon:
https://0pointer.net/blog/announcing-systemd-v257.html
Enjoy! And stay tuned for #systemd258!