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A lot happened at 38c3. I gave away all ten routers that I brought for that purpose. I made some progress bootstrapping Alpine Linux in 128 MiB and then hit the python wall: at 15000 lines (unicodeobject.c), the assembler (as) triggered the OOM killer; I "fixed" that by using -Os instead o...

minki wrote: ↑2024-12-22 See https://muellers-software.org/void-ppc-support/ for resources on running void on ppc.

Ah nice, thanks.

Right now I'm struggling with the USB stick that I got for this project, because it's extremely slow.

UPDATE: got a different USB stick, which is decently fast.

A change of plans I still wanted to connect a keyboard/mouse/screen and some mass storage, because that's just such a silly idea. Fortunately my USB card works, and I have an old DisplayLink dongle (with VGA output) and a USB hub. The only remaining question is what to run on there. For ad-hoc test...

... but only for a few seconds. Turns out, there's a watchdog connected to one of the GPIO pins (which also prevented me from using JTAG, earlier). With that in mind, I was able to port my usual 1000 lines of C code and have a rudimentary shell: lolmon.png Next stop: U-Boot My goal was to boot Linux...

jtag.jpg On the bottom side of the mainboard, there's a clearly marked JTAG port. Since mainline OpenOCD doesn't have any PowerPC support, this was a whole side-quest. In the end, it turned out to be unnecessary, except for unbricking. NXP has a very nice document (AN4365) describing one of their J...

A while ago, someone offered me 40 WiFi access points and a few switches, that were previously installed in a student dormitory. I like free hardware, so I accepted. Note: This post is split up because I misunderstood how phpBB works. I hope it's still readable. stash.jpg Quick facts: Product: LANCO...

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ wrote: ↑2024-03-26 Hm, those MIPS SoCs were always there in this more powerful than μC but less powerful than Smartphones segment. I think with RISC-V there's going to be some interesting developments.

In a strange twist of irony, MIPS (the company) abandoned MIPS (the architecture) in favor of RISC-V