Lilbits: Half Life on ReactOS, a mouse with a horizontal scroll wheel, and MS PowerToys 0.100

These days you can play plenty of Windows games on Linux PCs thanks to Valve’s proton software. And a growing number of games that were originally made for Windows have also been ported to run natively on Linux.

All of which is to say that if you really want to run an older PC game like Half Life on an open source operating system, you have plenty of options for doing that. But it’s still […]

Мёд, крабы и чипы

Предисловие. Немного философское Недавно в российском информационном пространстве прогремело заявление заместителя Председателя Правительства России Ю.П. Трутнева, сделанное на 10-ой российско-китайской выставке ЭКСПО в Харбине:

https://habr.com/ru/companies/baikalelectron/articles/1040160/

#архитектура #loongarch #иртыш

#Loongarch，隐忍……

https://github.com/oxc-project/oxc/pull/21080#issuecomment-4481473949

🤦 The Russian CPU Irtysh, tested by PRO Hi‑Tech with a Radeon RX 9060 XT, fails to hit 60 FPS in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, it ran 25-38 FPS on Low and 22-32 FPS on Ultra via Proton. FAIL.

The chip is built on LoongArch and developed by Tramplin Electronics under license; the team plans 1.3 billion RUB for modernization, but exact timelines and goals remain undisclosed.

#SteamAndEpic #FPS #Electronics #LoongArch #Tramplin #Russian

I have code for 1 KiB PageGrain on MIPS qemu, which should enable a demonstration of handling a case very near VAX 512 B pages while seamlessly guaranteeing within-allocation-unit promotions to 4 KiB and 16 KiB for 64 KiB allocation units and also seamlessly handling superpage promotions to sizes that are power-of-four multiples of 64 KiB. I think there may have been some testing of a similar scenario using 256 KiB allocation units on LoongArch, but while it was verified that it didn't crash, not much was done to make sure that effective use was being made of sub- allocation unit -sized superpages esp. when there were multiple superpage sizes available between the minimum MMU mapping granularity and the kernel allocation unit.

#telix #qemu #MIPS #VAX #LoongArch

Rolling pgcl forward to 7.0 and the intermediate pre-7.1 somehow resuscitated binutils issues with running LTP and DAMON on hppa and some others, but it got to having no LTP regressions vs. master on 16 arches. I still need to induce enough fragmentation within a qemu session to be able to observe non-negligible defragmentation costs that might be reduced.

#pgcl #LTP #DAMON #HPPA

I see various articles about #loongarch, #zhaoxin and even #riscv CPUs that usually end with "it doesn't outperform a first-gen Ryzen or Haswell".

Big deal. It doesn't have to. It's targeting a different market.

It's far more important to have a good enough sovereign supply chain for the billion low-end office desktops that make a bureaucracy and economy tick. If relations collapse, gamers will have to make do with less.

I just tested the IceWM 4.0 update on Chimera. I have a fondness for IceWM as it was the first WM I ran on my work computer in my first job out of university. Great to see it still seeing new releases. Here it is running on my little loongarch64 box.

#loongarch #icewm

Exploring #Linux on a #LoongArch Mini PC

https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2026/loongarch-mini-pc-m700s/

Ok now that's cool looks like Asus finally puts out Firmware updates for their released #Loongson #LoongArch motherboards public.

Here for XC-LS3A6M:
https://www.asus.com.cn/supportonly/xc-ls3a6m/helpdesk_bios/

Here for XC-LS3A6M-A:
https://www.asus.com.cn/supportonly/xc-ls3a6m-a/helpdesk_bios/

Way more stable and fan controls work now.