Val Packett 🧉

@valpackett@treehouse.systems
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Purple is my natural hair color. I have strong opinions about software and sometime I even get to make them reality. Same for the state of the world in general, but I have a lot less influence there.
Websitehttps://val.packett.cool
Nerdy Linktreehttps://keyoxide.org/aspe:val.packett.cool:DV7YKMH5QMHF5ZVU5UUSIXXXMI
Pronounsshe|they
Pronombresella|elle
Cuenta alt (en argentino)https://rebel.ar/@val
Pixelfedhttps://luzeed.org/@valpackett
…oh, lol, it was a "kernel too old" thing. oops!

https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2574

kernel's cursed? kvm's cursed? hardware's cursed?

the debian rocm team using full PCIe passthrough was getting a "VM crashes with EFAULT when accessing GPU memory"… and i'm seeing the same symptom with two different non-passthru setups (qemu+gfxstream and crosvm+native-context) on an integrated gpu?!

VM hang: 'error: kvm run failed Bad address' with some AMD GPUs since kernel 6.7 (#2574) · Issues · QEMU / QEMU · GitLab

Host environment Operating system: Debian unstable OS/kernel version: Linux ckk-dev 6.10.9-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.10.9-1 (2024-09-08) x86_64...

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courtesy of @davidgerard, Proton is now the only privacy vendor I know of that vibe codes its apps:

> In the single most damning thing I can say about Proton in 2025, the Proton GitHub repository has a “cursorrules” file. They’re vibe-coding their public systems. Much secure!

I am once again begging anyone who will listen to get off of Proton as soon as reasonably possible, and to avoid their new (terrible) apps in any case. https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/114961415946154957

David Gerard (@davidgerard@circumstances.run)

Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/02/protons-lumo-ai-chatbot-not-end-to-end-encrypted-not-open-source/ - text https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250802-protons-lumo-ai-chatbot-not-end-to-end-not-open-source - podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDPZbUPUFyk&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video

GSV Sleeper Service
…oh no, it might not have been that issue though. Inserted a different card and the corruption errors while reading the filesystem header are back. 0.o

Now we're cookin'.

(This is still very slow cookin' because SD LOL, but in the traditional "high" speed mode the top number was 20 MB/s.)

[PATCH V4 0/4] Add level shifter support for qualcomm SOC's - Sarthak Garg

"hm, let me finally investigate that UHS SD card issue"

"is there anything about the modes in the other dt- OHHH"

This thread has taken too much of my time & energy, and I'm shifting that to elsewhere. I've preserved the thread here: https://ghostarchive.org/archive/JfGbx

Feel free to stop reblogging. I still would like to see pixelfed actually publish the vulnerability report on GitHub, and fix the issue with followings on pixelfed being out of sync with remote accounts due to this bug, but whatever.

Emelia 👸🏻: "So @pixelfed still hasn't full…" - Hachyderm.io | Ghostarchive

hey, if you're at #why2025 and you (somehow) have something you want to send to me in particular, I have a local friend who went over there who can take things for me! You'll get a sticker from our hacklab in return!

Anyone wanna get rid of a spotify car thing, rabbit r1, or some other embedded Linux/Android junk like that? :3

I am very glad that I spent my weekend watching dinosaurs with my sweetie

but also

I would be less stressed if I had spent more of that time doing meal prep and chores 😅

×

Now we're cookin'.

(This is still very slow cookin' because SD LOL, but in the traditional "high" speed mode the top number was 20 MB/s.)

…oh no, it might not have been that issue though. Inserted a different card and the corruption errors while reading the filesystem header are back. 0.o

@valpackett hm could it be ur missing a BAM node in ur dts?

for msm8960, Sam helped me figure out that single byte write to the sd card/emmc were fine, just big writes would cause it to fail

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/5ee449c75f49c9a6b0cbff7848f922183e7888c1

this finally solved the problem for me

ARM: dts: qcom: msm8960: Add BAM · torvalds/linux@5ee449c

Copy bam nodes from qcom-ipq8064.dtsi and change the reg values to match msm8960. Co-developed-by: Sam Day <me@samcday.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Day <me@samcday.com> Reviewed-by: Dmitry ...

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@Logical_Error bam hasn't been used for sdhc for quiiiite a while xD By sdm845 there were only cryptobam and slimbam; in current socs only cryptobam is left it seems.

This is not about writes; this is actually about reads, specifically in SDR104 mode (well maybe other UHS modes but not HS); and seemingly specifically early reads (like reading GPT/FS headers). And it wasn't seen on reference platforms, only on production laptops. Actually I should test adding delays on probe xD