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(Waiting for page to load) "Nice, so they finally got a kernel to boot. I wonder what fancy way they'll be showing the dmesg infor--" "Oh." I think I need to

(Waiting for page to load) "Nice, so they finally got a kernel to boot. I wonder what fancy way they'll be showing the dmesg infor--" "Oh." I think I need to recalibrate my idea of a 10x developer... (The standard would seem to have ratcheted up somewhat as the years have gone by!)

londons_explore 6y ago
When the kernel boots, and you have a framebuffer working, all of userspace and gnome will probably just work with no modifications. You might have to play shenanigans like copying a complete filesystem into a ramdisk from the bootloader if your kernel doesn't have support for any IO/networking/storage devices. But you'll still be able to get this screenshot! Having said that, they have USB working, which is quite an effort, although I'd guess it's an IPCore that a driver already existed for, so it was a simple matter of figuring out memory mappings etc. With USB working, you can make a very usable system, because pretty much any peripheral will work over USB.
- floatboth 6y ago
  Yes, USB is the same Synopsys DesignWare piece of..hardware that you can find on all the Allwinners/Rockchips/Amlogics/whatever. They wrote a driver for the "binding" crap around this to make the controller work, yeah. And some Type-C stuff (Apple handles it in software)
wmf 6y ago
Note that this team already ported Linux to the iPhone, so what they did recently was update their iPhone port to support M1.
- exikyut 6y ago
  I see. The hardware history stories/narratives are getting absolutely hilarious, IMO... :)