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Free the (Intel) FSP?
by Richard Wilbur 15 Dec '18

15 Dec '18

This looked interesting--like Intel is starting to feel pressure from RISC-V, et cetera. Regardless, I'm still very interested in security, efficiency, configurability, and other aspects of libre design of RISC-V. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-Open-Source-FSP-L…

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What do 1,000 EOMA68-A20 PCBs look like?
by Paul Boddie 12 Dec '18

12 Dec '18

Hello, Nice to see the progress being made in the recent update: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/what-do-1-000-eoma… It's a shame that you have to redo your Parabola bootstrapping. I experimented with bootstrapping Parabola on MIPS a few months ago using two different approaches - (1) try and cross-compile packages, (2) try and native build in another environment - and it was rather frustrating either way. Ultimately, I didn't regard it as a great way to spend my time. Paul

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Free culture
by Jean Flamelle 12 Dec '18

12 Dec '18

Biases as well as lack thereof distinguish individuals. Whatever one believes might get muted by what one cannot choose to not receive exposure. Colloquially "free to speak; free to not listen". This existential health issue related to FLOSS in my opinion should take priority over the information security issue. -- CC0

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Re: [Arm-netbook] Reframing The Holy War
by Jean Flamelle 11 Dec '18

11 Dec '18

Don't forget free CULTURE. Too much focus on illusions of grander security, minimizing the minimal black swans, then we forget we want a clean mental environment furthermore to have as well as give meaningful challenges with outcomes expressing the spirits of the souls experiencing the prerequisite difficulty and more. We want diversity AND isolation to have a creative society. That requires redundancy, which requires excluding exclusive proprieties. Libre Propriety.

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Questioning The Holy War
by Christopher Havel 09 Dec '18

09 Dec '18

Okay. Forgive me, Luke, for inciting what will inevitably be a stake-burning that will be of such grand proportion as to be visible in space... ...but... ...I have to admit that I just don't "get it". When I write, I save my documents in Word 97-2003 *.doc format. Sometimes I even make a PDF copy. When I listen to music, it's inevitably an MP3. When I go shopping, I like to sit in the Subway at the local Walmart and mooch off the wifi- to the point that, specifically because it has no wifi, I won't go to the Wendy's across the parking lot even though I like their food better. And not having access to Flash is always an annoyance when it occurs. Even my phone is a Samsung Galaxy S7 - not exactly flying the flag of happy freedom-ness. All the stuff I do and rely on daily in my computer is closed-source. I prefer Linux as an operating system primarily because (a) it is a standalone setup which does not require third-party applications for ordinary daily operation, the way Windows does, (b) it's incredibly modular, (c) it doesn't think I'm stupid (much), and (d) I can't beat the price. In using both Linux and Windows (and, to a somewhat lesser extent, DOS and whatever's in a Commodore 64) over the roughly two-and-a-half decades of my life in which I've had my own computer, the only applications I've ever had that actually shot the cat (metaphorically) were applications designed for that purpose, i.e. malware - and in all instances, that was on Windows. (There is one exception that was me being a dummy and turning off a vital system component and then rebooting, the result of which was an unavoidable reinstall -- but that was quite early on and something far more along the lines of a moderately entertaining learning experience than anything else.) ...and that's kind of where I usually draw the line. If a guven application doesn't 'shoot the cat' -- cause obvious system instability or exhibit other overtly malicious activity during use -- and it performs the task(s) it was designed for, it seems to me it ought to be considered just fine, at least for the most part. Yet, almost every message on this list seems to carry with it the implication -- if not express statement -- that if a given application can't be openly audited on a remarkably low level by a random layperson at a random time and place -- leaving alone the fact that most ordinary individuals severely lack the knowledge and education required for that task -- it must therefore be evil and untrustworthy and oh god we can't have any of that sort of thing around here, shoo shoo... Maybe I'm just too ordinary (although that's one thing I've never been accused of!) but I just don't understand. If a program demonstrably does its job, keeps its pants up, and doesn't 'shoot the cat', at least in everyday use, it's got to be, at worst -- as Douglas Adams would say -- "mostly harmless "... right...?

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libre-riscv, first update
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 05 Dec '18

05 Dec '18

https://www.crowdsupply.com/libre-risc-v/m-class/updates/why-make-a-quad-co… in case anyone's interested, do subscribe to updates. i'll post links here anyway. l.

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I just had a great idea,
by zap 27 Nov '18

27 Nov '18

Luke have you ever considered making a libre earth friendly server? Tell me if you like this idea... :)

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tricky conundrum for the upcoming libre-riscv soc crowdsupply page: image needed
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 12 Nov '18

12 Nov '18

ok so to start the new campaign, an image is needed. not a logo, an *image*. something that "represents" a chip and its potential uses and usefulness in a real and concrete way. the problem is: this is a fabless semi-conductor design... there *is* no chip, there *is* nothing to put out there, and because it's just one component that goes *into* products, there *is* no frickin product either! a confusing jumbled utterly boring montage of hypothetical products would be needed. even more of a conundrum: even putting up a picture of some BGA or QFP packaging isn't ok either, because depending on the final pincount, *AND* on large customer orders, the chip will be *custom packaged* and tailored to their needs (i.e. the same die will have far more interfaces added than there are actual pins, and the die re-packaged to suit the customer's needs, leaving many of the pads disconnected internally or connected internally to other dies). if you look at every single campaign there is a nice "image". it's either the first frame of the video, or it's a really cool-looking shot of a PCB, or a 1in cubic robot: https://www.crowdsupply.com/william-weiler-engineering/skoobot logos are out, although not completely ruled out. if anyone would like to convert the attached to PNG (with a variant placing a circle behind the square) that would be really helpful. so this is the challenge: come up with a suitable place-holder image. l.

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libre-riscv shakti m-class talk
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 02 Nov '18

02 Nov '18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojeHX33MPSc cool! i didn't realise this was up, until someone kindly pointed it out, today.

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Should we support libre.computer's efforts at promoting lima?
by David Niklas 02 Nov '18

02 Nov '18

Are they even talking about lima? Or are they giving us the wool-over-eyes treatment? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/librecomputer/la-frite-open-source-fri… Searching.... Nope, I can't find anything for or against lima. Can anyone else find out? I'm going to try and ask them directly, but evidence would be better. Thanks!

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