Interesting how sometimes new etiquette pops up

You can now jailbreak your AMD CPU! 🔥We've just released a full microcode toolchain, with source code and tutorials. https://bughunters.google.com/blog/5424842357473280/zen-and-the-art-of-microcode-hacking

Hey RISC-V folks! It'll be a 5th Gbg RISC-V meetup, co-located with the RISC-V in Space Workshop! Sign up here: https://www.meetup.com/goteborg-risc-v-group/events/306521257/

Announcing it on Mastodon before anywhere else:

We've just set up a Discord server for Patreon supporters at the Sergeant and Lieutenant levels. We're doing this slowly and might expand to other tiers as we see how it all works out.

Thanks for your support!

https://www.patreon.com/c/thewaroncarspod

I hope I ever get to be even *one hundredth* as brave as Zelenskyy when it comes to standing up to powerful bullies. 🇺🇦🇨🇦

@keithp ya, sounds like it...

Good news is I was trying to do something so stupid I don't even need to run the tests to know it'll never work ;)

@keithp ya, for builds crosstool-ng is great. That's why I was kind of happy to stumble into the test script. It's gluing together all the test stuff that's the big headache, I'll just end up with a box full of hung QEMU instances again...

@keithp having something smaller than OE would be great. The crosstool-ng flow would need some distro, though, and at that point I'm back to gluing stuff together -- which kind of defeats the "use someone else's stuff" goal ;)

@keithp looks like maybe OE can do it, though? https://github.com/openembedded/openembedded-core/blob/master/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-runtime.inc#L286

@keithp it seems to be somewhat common, everything assumes you've got HW that you want to run the tests on. I think we're just in an odd spot because we still don't have any useful hardware...

@keithp I'd love to, that'd be way easier than trying to pile up a bunch of stuff. Looks like there's some testsuite hooks in there, but it wants to SSH <https://spacegit.unibe.ch/open-source/crosstool-ng/-/tree/a173dfa93937d835b10f3b460faaa652a017f035/contrib/gcc-test-suite>. That usually means it wants to run these on some box with another userspace?

Does anyone have a good set of GCC/glibc cross-build/test scripts? Looks like riscv-gnu-toolchain is broken again...

Best team ever. Come work on compilers and language features 😃 https://redhat.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Jobs/job/Remote-US-NC/Platform-Tools---Principal-Software-Engineer---C---Tools---Automotive_R-042453-1

@ljs what the stress of kernel development does to a person

Many of us have now heard of Rust's "Graydon Hoare being upset at a broken embedded system in an elevator" origin story, but not many younger programmers know that C++ was invented by Bjarne Stroustrup after he forgot to null-terminate his legs while putting his shoes on one day and had to deal with the aftermath.

RISC-V and Fedora: All Aboard! (Fedora Magazine)

https://lwn.net/Articles/1010857/ #LWN

At least once a day I'm reminded of this slide from @bagder last year at FOSDEM

What would a TV ad promoting alternatives to driving look like? What if people who love cycling and progressive transportation reclaimed ideas like freedom, independence and even patriotism? We decided to give it a shot. Check out our new video, "America, It's Just Like Riding a Bike."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0MVCyOjvtk

Very happy to announce my book The Linux Memory Manager is now available to pre-order at

https://nostarch.com/linux-memory-manager

It's a comprehensive 1,300 page exploration of how memory functions in Linux that goes into great depth on the subject, and is the first book of its kind for 20 years :)

👀 #TIL Monopoly wasn't invented by the Parker Brothers, nor the man they gave it credit for. In 1904, Monopoly was originally called The Landlord's Game, and was invented by a radical woman. Elizabeth Magie's original game had not one, but two sets of rules to choose from.
One was called "Prosperity", where every player won money anytime another gained a property. And the game was won by everyone playing only when the person with the least doubled their resources. A game of collaboration and social good.
The second set of rules was called "Monopoly", where players succeeded by taking properties and rent from those with less luck rolling the dice. The winner was the person who used their power to eliminate everyone else.
Magie's mission was to teach us how different we feel when playing Prosperity vs Monopoly, hoping that it would one day change national policies.
When the Parker Bros adopted the game, they erased the "Prosperity" rules and celebrated "Monopoly".
#ElizabethMagie #Monopoly #Landlord
HT Tumblr.com/soberscientistlife