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by andreiw 8y ago
So I'm a ReactOS fanboi, but... but... - You need to fix your flaccid dev community. Your forums have a terrible S/N ratio. IRC may be great and all, but I don't see any hard documentation behind any design discussions or dev
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by andreiw 8y ago
Ugh. This website saved my ass trying to make HID devices work on top of the completely non-conforming Linaro DwUsbHostDxe driver (look at https://github.com/andreiw/RaspberryPiPkg/commits/master/Dri...
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by andreiw 8y ago
I bet in 20 years no one will know what ReactJS even is, but ReactOS very much will preserve NT regardless of Microsoft’s successes. ReactOS is a usable Windows NT 6+ clone, with kernel ABI ( driver ) compat, that runs real software. What
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by andreiw 9y ago
I see an article that is not congruent with actual tech facts. They can warn all they want, because the precedent says otherwise. Even if you wanted to make the argument that Intel is against emulation on non-x86 systems, that’s not true -
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by andreiw 9y ago
lol wut? VMware Workstation, Connectix/MS VirtualPC, Oracle VirtualBox, qemu, bochs...what Intel-licensed hardware or software? How about FX!32 or it’s latest AArch64 cousin seen on Windows 10? Of the above, qemu can target x86 and run
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by andreiw 9y ago
NetBSD peeps: if you want to play with UEFI and PSCI support, check out https://github.com/andreiw/RaspberryPiPkg This is a 64-bit UEFI firmware for RPi3 that uses ATF for PSCI, and has USB, HDMI and SD card support. I
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by andreiw 9y ago
neat, arm64 and x64 hypervisor in Fuchsia??
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by andreiw 9y ago
Nice. Looking at this takes me back to 2000s, and leaves me thinking we’ve taken a wrong turn somewhere. Software should be simple - and that means that it should do one thing and do it well, not be stunted for “aesthetic” or other reasons.
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by andreiw 9y ago
Cool. I always wanted to go the other way - being able to cast video into my head unit, like a phone. I read that MirrorLink is inherently VNC and USB networking. Does anyone have a MirrorLink «server» stack that can run on a board with OTG
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by andreiw 9y ago
IOMMU? You still get to lock down access per device...or the Mac laptops don’t have an IOMMU?
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by andreiw 9y ago
Virtualization? UART?
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by andreiw 9y ago
ARM already did. https://developer.arm.com/support/security-update The Meltdown/Spectre class of attacks affect certain CPUs. Spectre is a microarchitectural attack on any CPU that does speculation and uses data
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by andreiw 9y ago
That’s assuming the only thing you want to prevent is speculative bounds overrun. Even with masking, you can still leak the secret in the array from the path not taken? Do you see evidence of gcc or clang gravitating to the MS approach? In
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by andreiw 9y ago
One thing curiously missing from this article is ARM’s laudable in-depth analysis - https://developer.arm.com/support/security-update , and their efforts ( https://developer.arm.com/support/security-
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by andreiw 9y ago
Nice story, but the USSR has been gone for more than twenty years. What value does this add to HN’s audience, beyond stoking more russophobe hysteria? There are plenty of other awful things that could be covered - ranging from lynchings to
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by andreiw 9y ago
I know people have an axe to grind both with the old lame duck WinRT and the insulting locked down firmware on those devices, but let’s wait for the reviews and tear-downs before tearing into the news?
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by andreiw 9y ago
IMO yes. Although SBSA and SBBR target the servers, already smaller gear (think vCPE, set top box and IoT gateway chips) are adopting the specs as well, and I anticipate adoption everywhere except devices where a) cost is everything b) powe
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by andreiw 9y ago
That’s exactly why the Arm servers adopt the same specs or functional equivs to x86. A single binary distribution of an OS will boot on any SBSA compatible machine - because all the weird bits are hidden through ACPI, UEFI and PSCI. No BSPs
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by andreiw 9y ago
That’s not true at all. That has been true only for the embedded and mobile space. The server space is exactly being made open and compatible between SoCs (in the same way AMD and Intel machines are). Platform crud (i2c, gpio, i2c, clock tr
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by andreiw 9y ago
Can someone from Microsoft comment this and https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/securing-the-intellig... ? Does this mean Windows IoT 64-bit on Arm edge gateways? Is SBSA and SBBR mandatory? How does this contra
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by andreiw 9y ago
https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-arch/msg38872.html RHEL requires 64k base page size, which AFAIK the RPi3 doesn’t support. You can run Fedora and CentOS, though.
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by andreiw 9y ago
Marvell MacchiatoBIN, Overdrive 3000, Gigabyte MT30-GS2 (ThunderX), Gigabyte R120-P31 (X-Gene1)
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by andreiw 9y ago
SoftIron.com. Cheapest option (OverDrive 1000) is $599. https://www.solid-run.com/marvell-armada-family/armada-8040-... - $369. You can get it in a case too ( https://www.solid-run.com/clearcloud-cloud-i
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by andreiw 9y ago
SoftIron.com. Cheapest option (OverDrive 1000) is $599. https://www.solid-run.com/marvell-armada-family/armada-8040-... - $369. You can get it in a case too ( https://www.solid-run.com/clearcloud-cloud-i
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by andreiw 9y ago
Enterprise-level support vs. use-at-your-own-risk science project.
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by andreiw 9y ago
“besting” is very relative. Workloads in such footprints are usually power constrained and I am not aware of any x86 solutions involving a discrete NIC that can do 20Gbps at 35W. Yep, ACPI support is evolving, but it’s a matter of time. Fol
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by andreiw 9y ago
https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2017/11/08/qualcomm-centri...
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by andreiw 9y ago
https://www.solid-run.com/marvell-armada-family/armada-8040-... softiron.com for the OverDrive 1000.
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by andreiw 9y ago
SoftIron.com. Cheapest option (OverDrive 1000) is $599. https://www.solid-run.com/marvell-armada-family/armada-8040-... - $369 https://www.phoenicselectronics.com will sell you a Gigabyte MT30-GS2 (Cavium T
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by andreiw 9y ago
Very successful. We're now in the 3rd generation of Arm servers, all built to the same set of specifications with multiple vendor SoCs by tens of different OEM/ODMs - SBSA (Server Base System Architecture) and SBBR (Server Base Bo

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