<peterm6881>
i was checking to see if any of those post messages appear in Armbian, they dont
<peterm6881>
are you in the Buildroot channel?
<Xogium>
yes
<peterm6881>
lol whats the latest alias
<Xogium>
what do you mean
<peterm6881>
i dont see you listed
<Xogium>
buildroot moved to oftc irc network
<peterm6881>
wtf
<peterm6881>
i added the channel here, who are the people on Libera then?
<peterm6881>
sure enough, 0 ops
<peterm6881>
such bs
<peterm6881>
what did BR not like about Libera?
<peterm6881>
sigh, registration hell again
<Xogium>
not sure what they didn't like, tbh
<Xogium>
someone made a channel on libera, but they never migrated to it in the end
<peterm6881>
can you help me get registered , ive added OFTC
<peterm6881>
i cant remember how you register
<Xogium>
it is different for each network
<Xogium>
have to message nickserv, I think
<peterm6881>
its fine i got ity
<peterm6881>
it
<peterm6881>
i see you there, how come no ops?
<Xogium>
ops can be ops without necessarily advertising it
<Xogium>
they can activate op mode if they need to, not all the time
<Xogium>
like this
<peterm6881>
awesome
<Xogium>
exception to it is chanserv bot which keeps the channel alive if everybody quits
<peterm6881>
how come ours has ChanServ bot and buildroots dorsnt, just curious
<Xogium>
I think chanserv is for freenode/libera, oftc might do things differently
<peterm6881>
got it
<Xogium>
freenode totally sank though
<Xogium>
andrew lee fucked it up real bad
<peterm6881>
lol bad karma. no kudos
<peterm6881>
can you check if there are any upstream changes we could apply?
<peterm6881>
meh i guess that would come with newer LTS right?
<peterm6881>
did you read Tom's reply?
<Xogium>
yes
<peterm6881>
is it worth chasing sunxi?
<Xogium>
we don't use their kernel, so no
<peterm6881>
or, not
<peterm6881>
its Allwinners kernel?
<Xogium>
changes we can apply, well I already told you that we update the kernel version independently of the lts of br, we don't use their latest kernel version they decide to stick with
<peterm6881>
what does Tom mean by vendor supplied kernel
<Xogium>
it is mainline kernel
<Xogium>
he mean like the kernel from allwinner yes
<Xogium>
we don't use that
<Xogium>
the kernel from sunxi is old and unmaintained, it's like a 3.x kernel
<Xogium>
well I say sunxi but its really allwinner as vendor
<Xogium>
sunxi is just the family of product it's made for
<peterm6881>
thats fine. Talk to me about upstream maintainers
<peterm6881>
who are these kernel gods of which you and Tom speak
<Xogium>
well… whoever maintains the support for orange pi zero, I suppose… No idea who that would be
<peterm6881>
and where do they reside if not mighty Olympus itself
<peterm6881>
Hmm, how do we find out?
<Xogium>
not sure who we would need to contact exactly, someone from a particular subsystem or…
<Xogium>
the kernel tree has a get-maintainer script that can tell you who maintains a particular piece of code
<peterm6881>
ohhh
<peterm6881>
we're on the case
<peterm6881>
can you check it
<Xogium>
not 10000% sure but I'd say
<Xogium>
Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org> (maintainer:ARM/Allwinner sunXi SoC support)