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Redox OS: Real hardware breakthroughs, and focusing on rustc(redox-os.org)
14 points by jackpot51 7y ago|1 comments
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by jackpot51 7y ago
No, it is not possible to boot a Comet Lake Intel CPU without blobs.
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by jackpot51 7y ago
The NVRAM is preserved on firmware updates with this new firmware, so that could fix this issue but I have not encountered it before. Usually it is recommended to install Windows first, and then install Pop!_OS - so that the Windows bootloa
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by jackpot51 7y ago
oreboot does not support x86 at this time, and does not plan to.
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by jackpot51 7y ago
The update to users.html was merged and will be there shortly: https://review.coreboot.org/c/homepage/+/35957/1
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by jackpot51 7y ago
Glad to hear that. I certainly like working with laptops, desktops, and servers across a wide spectrum of hardware - from the Galago Pro to the Thelio Massive
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by jackpot51 7y ago
Yes, that is me. Here's the right link though ;-) https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/redox/-/graphs/master
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by jackpot51 7y ago
We will be looking into supporting older models starting with the darp5 and galp3-c.
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by jackpot51 7y ago
A few things are going on here. libgfxinit support for Comet Lake is coming. The Intel GOP driver is a bit different than this, though. There is an Intel PEIM graphics driver that comes from the PSP, that provides a software-rendering frame
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by jackpot51 7y ago
That's like saying you can't call Linux open source because it bundles closed firmware for WiFi, for example... The ME could certainly still be active, that is true, but with modern x86 platforms attempting to disable the ME or PS
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by jackpot51 7y ago
Good to hear! If you want to play around with the firmware, you can still do so in virtualization using the qemu model.
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by jackpot51 7y ago
The laptops which we will be delivering with open firmware will require the FSP and Intel ME, with the Intel GOP driver being an optional component to enable graphics acceleration in UEFI. The ME is disabled by way of a HECI message early i
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by jackpot51 7y ago
I am Jeremy Soller, Principal Engineer at System76. Let me know if you have any questions. The source for this can be found here: https://github.com/system76/firmware-open There are instructions there for building and
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by jackpot51 8y ago
LLVM, gcc, and rustc all work. The issue with cargo has been libgit2.
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by jackpot51 8y ago
Yes, Redox does run on bare metal. https://www.redox-os.org/screens/
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by jackpot51 8y ago
Pop!_OS is what I use, and I am part of the team working on it.
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by jackpot51 8y ago
It already runs netsurf. For something like Firefox, it is a matter of porting more packages like GTK+ and spidermonkey
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by jackpot51 8y ago
We were working on porting servo first
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by jackpot51 8y ago
Major projects at this time are orbtk, relibc, ion, and the cookbook. There are a couple known security issues in the kernel regarding memory management. One is that memory is granted in pages, so buffers passed to a scheme are over-mapped
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by jackpot51 8y ago
Thanks!
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by jackpot51 8y ago
https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/redox/-/jobs/10824/arti... That is the one you need for a VM.
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by jackpot51 8y ago
I am the creator and lead developer of Redox OS. Let me know if you have any questions about this release!
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Redox OS 0.5.0(redox-os.org)
103 points by jackpot51 8y ago|27 comments
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by jackpot51 8y ago
No, but it would be interesting to look into
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by jackpot51 8y ago
I am the creator of Redox. We have a somewhat POSIX compliant C library called relibc that supports existing Unix applications.
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by jackpot51 8y ago
I am the creator of Redox. We have a somewhat POSIX compliant C library called relibc that supports existing Unix applications.
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by jackpot51 8y ago
I am the creator of Redox, and I am glad to have this rundown. Yes, the design of the Redox kernel is such that the kernel can load any set of drivers from the initramfs, including being completely diskless. In order to make this easy, ELF
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by jackpot51 8y ago
No. It is a blockchain, but is not distributed or mined. Firmware is built and signed with the signature of the previous build as part of the artifacts. This, in addition with a constraint that the timestamp can never move backwards, means
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by jackpot51 8y ago
Blockchain, however muddied it is today, does have legitimate uses. In this case, we use it to enforce a valid timeline of builds with cryptography.
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by jackpot51 8y ago
That is good to know. We will also need to unlock the flash descriptor, which is more proprietary code to reverse engineer.

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