Mastodawn

@emmanuelwald @socksinspace that’s a shame. I do recall having to fiddle around with the boot settings of NetBSD since the 90s laptop I was trying to install it on had a really poor ACPI implementation. I think disabling ACPI worked in my case but it is very likely that you’ve got a different issue.

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birdgoose 5d ago

@emmanuelwald I’ve had some good successes with NetBSD recently. It’ll run on pretty much anything you throw it at.

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birdgoose Mar 3

@Atemu thanks for the link. This is an interesting project. I was going to ask about the input device but you’ve mentioned the Ergodox. Very cool!

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birdgoose Mar 3

@Atemu impressive new skill unlocked! I’m also keen to hear more about how you’re finding the experience of having emacs strapped to your face and your setup in general.

birdgoose Oct 5

NerdNextDoor

Oct 5

I will soon license #Arikoto under the NCSA/University of Illinois Open Source License.

Waiting for people in the Discord server to agree on the license. It seems positive so far. Can anyone here also tell me this is a good idea?

For anyone who doesn't know what Arikoto is, it's my #OSDev project I've been working on since January 2025 and growing steadily.

https://codeberg.org/NerdNextDoor/arikoto
https://arikoto.nerdnextdoor.net/

#Tech #Technology #FOSS #OpenSource #OperatingSystem #Kernel #Programming #Development

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birdgoose Sep 10, 2025

Okay, so, it turns out that logical OR with an immediate value is something of a dark art on aarch64 (https://dinfuehr.com/blog/encoding-of-immediate-values-on-aarch64/).

I've instead resorted to doing an add instruction. This is okay because I've cleared the lower 3 bits of X0 in the instruction before.

birdgoose Sep 10, 2025

I'm in need of some advice from an #aarch64 #asm guru 🙏

I'm trying to do something (that I thought was) rather straightforward but for some reason LLVM has decided that ORRing the X0 register with 5 is not a cool thing to do. ORRing with other decimal values work just fine.

Am I missing something here?