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

I'm against capital punishment in general, but I might be convinced to keep it on the books for product designers who put the screws under glued-on rubber feet

"In #RHEL 9, we upgraded the ISA baseline to the x86-64-v2 microarchitecture level. For RHEL 10, we are exploring whether we can go a step further, to the x86-64-v3 level."

From Florian Weimer: https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2024/01/02/exploring-x86-64-v3-red-hat-enterprise-linux-10

Did you know:

There is a single misplaced pixel in Toad's spritesheet. This error is across all versions, including prototypes as far back as April 1992. That shade of red doesn't appear on any Toad head sprites, and is too out of place on his head to be part of the ovals.

the picture on the right is circling the sprites that are at the same scale to show a full rotation, showing that the pixel is actually an error.

Sneaky lil guy has been hiding for over 30 years!

This one trick to do sqr() and cube() in C: https://godbolt.org/z/7qeanM

#programming

@monsieuricon @warthog9 Hurray and congrats all around! That's quite the accomplishment!

vger mail transfer is complete and working well.

Please send your kind regards and words of thanks to @warthog9 for his work managing vger over the past several years, after having taken over its maintenance from DaveM.

@monsieuricon awesome, thanks!

@monsieuricon I didn’t want to spam the lists as I think I just still don’t know how email works, but IIUC saying “we will switch the MX record for vger to point to the new location (subspace.kernel.org)” means that I do not need to do something like this?

diff --git a/.mailrc b/.mailrc
index 89c8e56..10fc4ee 100644
--- a/.mailrc
+++ b/.mailrc
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ alias libc-alpha          libc-alpha@sourceware.org
 alias glibc-patches       libc-alpha@sourceware.org
 alias gcc-patches         gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
 alias binutils-patches    binutils@sourceware.org
-alias linux-kernel        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
+alias linux-kernel        linux-kernel@subspace.kernel.org
 alias linux-riscv         linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
 alias linux-patches       linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
 alias linux-arch          linux-arch@vger.kernel.org

User’s group meetup 004!

Today 7th December at 18:00 CET. Use this link to join: https://meet.jit.si/yosys-users-group

We'll start with a welcome and news, followed by a discussion on the Yosys plugin system.

We’ll have 2 demos by Martin Povišer & Gabriel Gouvine.

Afterwards we'll have time for your questions and suggestions.

See the agenda and minutes of our previous meetups here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13e8hERQ_eqLQrdtH1WXnGUXDtgyQ8oa_zZWXPHJCiN0/edit#heading=h.acuv9rigd4pt

Looking forward to seeing you there!

@conor @monsieuricon ya, this is super cool. I guess I'm upgrading b4 this weekend...

Accepted stands for FOSDEM 2024 https://fosdem.org/2024/news/2023-11-20-accepted-stands-fosdem-2024/

Any embedded Linux software engineers looking for a well paid job?

Louis Rossmann is hiring.

#Linux #TexasInstruments #EmbeddedLinux #Programmers #Engineers #Work

@trini ya, I use patchwork a ton -- it's genuinely life changing.

Putting software in containers is cruel and unnatural.

Programs should be allowed to roam and graze freely on computer systems. Forcibly isolating and constraining them will lead only undue suffering.

Use of technologies such as Docker in systems administration must be ended immediately, there is no ethical justification for inflicting trauma like this in an enlightened society.

In this "free range software manifesto" I will -

@pdp7 hopefully sooner than their license expires!

@trini if submitters do things in a normal-looking way, then `--merge` will do most of that for you. That's how I pick stuff up these days and it's way easier than trying to do things manually.

Well, TIL that b4 shazam has some other handy flags like -H and I can use that instead of make a branch, apply, merge, drop in cover letter.