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<geist> Huh TIL that `hexdump` has a whole formatting mechanism where youcan give it printf style output string
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<geist> It’s pretty nice
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<zid`> I knew it had a bunch of options, not sure I knew about the printf one
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<geist> Yeah. (Dunno why I got bumped there)
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<zid`> because you were on the wrong server
<zid`> wallops have been going out to tell you to change because they're starting em
<zid`> re
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<geist> Ah i see. Well I’m coming in via irccloud so i can’t decide what server it connects to
<geist> Just had to take the bump and let it reconn
<kazinsal_> yeah, same
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<geist> random thing i think I’m going to settle in for the night: write a 6800 emulator for an Altair680
<geist> Why? I dunno, but i already have al title emulator project and it’s easy to add another cpu to it, and the 6800 is like a one-evening project
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<zid`> I was thinking of rewriting mine but I haven't worked up the gumption
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<kazinsal> gah. why does pidgin still not have a dark mode on windows in 2022
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<FatAlbert> why do you use windows in 2022
<FatAlbert> ?
<mrvn> because if I remove the windows and it rains then my monitor gets wet.
<mrvn> *duck*
<vdamewood> mrvn: It's a fair enough answer to such a question.
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<FatAlbert> how much time it take before WW3?
<FatAlbert> i think 2 years from now, hell gonna break loose
<FatAlbert> i want it because it will be egood for my interests
<klange> I don't think that's appropriate topic of discussion for this channel, unless you think the spark is going to be over operating system choices.
<FatAlbert> when ~80% of a nation is dead there will be what i call social reset
<FatAlbert> i just hope i won't be part of these 80%
* vdamewood pots away his troll food.
<vdamewood> puts*
<FatAlbert> everyone will have a chacne to start all over
<FatAlbert> also after a war ... all bad blood has been cleared
<FatAlbert> it's a new life !
<vdamewood> I think I want to fit my entire kernel in the lower 640k of memory.
<FatAlbert> in essence we are getting close to the new 60s or 70s ... isn't that beautiful ?
<clever> vdamewood: some of my kernel builds run on just 128kb of L2 cache, and not even touching ram
<mrvn> FatAlbert: unless it's an AI uprising I have <20% confidence of your survival.
<FatAlbert> wow so little faith ...
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<klange> what if it _is_ an AI uprising?
<FatAlbert> most of people who have been thorough half of what i have in life are either committed suicide in jail or are on drugs somewhere
<mrvn> The AI might keep him around for some menial programming work. Or target nerds with a vengance so they don't write a virtus to take it down. Uncertain.
<mrvn> -t
<FatAlbert> also
<FatAlbert> i have the power of invisibility ... what do you think i won't survive ?
<FatAlbert> why
<vdamewood> mrvn: Maybe an "I have no mouth, and I must scream" scenario.
<mrvn> FatAlbert: you will be run over by an automated truck on the first day.
<FatAlbert> i see the light at the end of the tunnel ...
<FatAlbert> it's a beautiful time .. and i have no intention of not be there
<psykose> >60s
<psykose> >good
<psykose> epic bait
<FatAlbert> i sometimes wonder, how death will eventually find me
<FatAlbert> a survivor like me.
<FatAlbert> are you guys also wonder it ?
<kazinsal> I more often wonder what exactly it is about this hobby that attracts the weirdest people
<FatAlbert> by wierdest people you mean me, ok, but what hobby are we talking about ?
<FatAlbert> anyway
<FatAlbert> i just hope ill pass on these genes. someone down the road might make better use of it
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<bslsk05> ​xkcd - Machine Learning Captcha
<clever> heh
<FatAlbert> mrvn: what was your choices ?
<FatAlbert> where do you run for ?
<mrvn> as if I would tell an AI
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<FatAlbert> what
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<Arsen> on gcc, is there an attribute for disabling -fbuiltins on just one function (for the purposes of implementing memset etc)
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<heat> usually you disable it in the files themselves
<heat> makes very little sense to disable it in one
<psykose> -fno-builtin-function exists, not sure if just matches by name
<heat> but I suppose you could do some pragma shenanigans to get that?
<Arsen> yeah, could do a file-by-file too
<Arsen> I don't think there's a pragma for this
<bslsk05> ​gcc.gnu.org: Function Specific Option Pragmas (Using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC))
<heat> I was thinking of those
<heat> but i dunno if it works with fbuiltin
<Arsen> "Each function that is defined after this point is treated as if it had been declared with one optimize(string) attribute for each string argument." time to see what optimize is
<Arsen> hah that's it, you're a genius!
<Arsen> thanks heat
<klange> any -f option, without the -f
<heat> thank you arsen, I know
<heat> my intellect knows no bounds
<Arsen> nor does your modesty :^)
<heat> my phd thesis will be based on random GCC tidbits and facts
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<heat> :P
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<klange> (though the -fno-builtin* stuff isn't listed in the "options that control optimization" section, so whether or not that actually works is... unknown, have fun!)
<Andrew> zid`: the register points to a memory locaation eight-bytes long (64-bit) that points to a disk location to store the weather
<heat> we're doing pmem?
<Arsen> oh true, hmm
<Arsen> well, time for a test I suppose
<Arsen> alternatively, I'll just build these files into a static lib without builtins and link that
<heat> IT DOES NOT WORK
<heat> MY INTELLECT DOES KNOW BOUNDS
<heat> I HAVE DISHONORED MY FAMILY
<j`ey> clever: having trouble with -serial pty. I run qemu with that, and then 'picocom /dev/pts/8', but I dont see any output, any ideas?
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<Arsen> klange: indeed, builtin is not permitted there
<Arsen> unfortunate
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<heat> j`ey, just tried with screen and it works here
<heat> I get a /dev/modem: No such file or directory with minicom
<j`ey> screen doesnt get me any output either
<heat> well, you're not getting any old output
<j`ey> ok screen does work actually
<heat> praise be gnu and gnu/linux, or as I've recently taken to call it, GNU plus Linux
<j`ey> doesnt work with --accel kvm..
<heat> works here
<heat> qemu-system-x86_64 -serial pty -cdrom ~/Downloads/archlinux-2022.03.01-x86_64.iso --enable-kvm -m 1G
<heat> which I use, btw
<psykose> can't tell anything happening on that screen, is that windows
<j`ey> weird
<zid`> Your call is very important to us. Please wait for an operator to handle your call.
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<heat> psykose, GNU hurd
<psykose> windows 2!
<heat> j`ey, maybe its linux's fault
<heat> i know it's sometimes a bit fucky with serial ports
<j`ey> but this is on the 'other side'.. unless you mean my host linux?
<heat> the guest
<j`ey> it shouldnt know how the serial is being displayed
<heat> yes, thats not the point
<heat> are you passing the correct console=ttyS0,<baud>
<heat> are you sure that systemd/your init system is picking up the tty and setting up a getty
<j`ey> why would kvm or not change that?
<heat> it wouldn't
<heat> unless you've got a really weird setup
<heat> or a really weird problem ofc
<j`ey> hmm
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<ddevault> hrpmh
<ddevault> rewrote my syscall handler, works, but interrupts stopped working
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<ddevault> there we go
<ddevault> ✓ yield
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<FatAlbert> what is Cmd key in vscode ?
<FatAlbert> i usually use vim but i decided i want to try vscode
<FatAlbert> but hey at least im getting closer to closer being on-topic
<FatAlbert> :)
<FatAlbert> s/to/and
<ddevault> how does one patch KDE2 under FreeBSD
<heat> (ctrl/cmd)+shift+p should let you input commands if that's what you want
<FatAlbert> heat: Cmd == ctrl ?
<heat> FatAlbert, pretty sure you have vim binding extensions too
<heat> idk, context?
<heat> ddevault, erm, context?
<heat> yall need to give out some of dat context
<ddevault> an old russian meme
<ddevault> pointing out that the question was off-topic
<ddevault> "hi, is this an anime channel" "yes" "how does one patch KDE2 under FreeBSD"
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<j`ey> hunter2
<j`ey> heat: someone running kvm/arm in qemu cant repro :<
<j`ey> (I say 'someone', that someone is the kvm arm maintainer :P)
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<FatAlbert> j`ey: sounds to me like your in love
<j`ey> i am
<heat> j`ey, can't repro your bug or my success?
<heat> he's in love with me
<heat> my arch usage is charming
<j`ey> cant repro my bug
<j`ey> heat: im in love with you, btw
<FatAlbert> he's in love with the kvm arm maintainer
<heat> :D
<FatAlbert> i wonder if there are girls doing all these low level stuff in the industry
<heat> some
<heat> j`ey, i'm on qemu 7.0.0
<j`ey> same
<FatAlbert> 90% of the girls in the industry i bet they are either general programmers or sys admins
<heat> wtf
<j`ey> i assume im doing something dumb
<heat> have you tried my exact command line
<heat> with $your_favourite_distro
<j`ey> no because arm
<heat> ubuntu server arm64?
<FatAlbert> arm of king leoric
<heat> also trying out x86_64 might be a way to go
<heat> I doubt the behavior varies based on the architecture
<j`ey> yes but then i'd be trying it on a different computer etc
<FatAlbert> seems like both of you need a little bit of GeDaMo
<heat> computer is hard
<heat> i like rock
<heat> rock good
<FatAlbert> hes the judge jury and executioner in #osdev
<FatAlbert> GeDaMo: show yourself
<j`ey> wait.. i think it's just fast with kvm lol
<j`ey> omg this might really just be silly
<heat> -_-
<heat> you dare bother the mighty kvm arm maintainer for this
<j`ey> lol
<j`ey> i had: screen /dev/pts/n ; sleep 1 ; ..
<j`ey> but all the output it printed was so fast with kvm, it was always missed
<zid`> lol that'd do it
<zid`> how *do* you launch it so that it works I wonder
<j`ey> remove the sleep 1 :P
<zid`> that's still racy
<zid`> just a lot easier to win
<heat> you create the pty beforehand and use the regular qemu tty code I assume
<FatAlbert> heat: wow thanks
<FatAlbert> vscode is so much cooler with vim style
<FatAlbert> i didn't fully tested it yet ... but it seems like the best of both world
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<FatAlbert> see ...
<FatAlbert> that's why im hanging out with you guys ... eventually someone will say something i understadn
<FatAlbert> and it's usually valuable
<FatAlbert> insane
<FatAlbert> heat: one thing ... ican't seem to integrate my init.vim and neovim plugins in vscode
<FatAlbert> settings.json includes
<bslsk05> ​bpa.st: View paste VFHA
<FatAlbert> ill do my own research
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<kingoffrance> "how does one patch KDE2 under FreeBSD" electrobsd has that on the faq i believe "I don't"
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<FatAlbert> king of france ask you a question, so you either asnwer you don't know or help
<kingoffrance> ? i dont know vscode. vim :D
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<kingoffrance> in the immortal words of another chatter "why you always configure? just make!" i dont mess with my editor much, just edit!
<zid`> I think I am just a better engineer than most people, I always manage to reassemble most things with fewer screws used than I started with
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<heat> FatAlbert, it's just a keybindings plugin
<heat> it's not actually vim lol
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<FatAlbert> yeah it's said in the charter it's a vim emulation
<FatAlbert> so i thought what if ..
<ddevault> I bet I can have doom running within six weeks
<FatAlbert> ddevault: you can do it right now
<ddevault> (on my kernel)
<GeDaMo> Port DOSBox to your kernel and get all sorts of games running :P
<FatAlbert> is porting requires reverse engineering ?
<ddevault> well, sometimes
* FatAlbert runs away
<FatAlbert> i always wanted to get into reverse engineering ...
<FatAlbert> what type of kernel you built ddevault
<FatAlbert> mono or micro
<ddevault> micro
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<FatAlbert> did you optimized it toward gaming or you just want to run doom in it
<ddevault> the latter
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<FatAlbert> so ...
<FatAlbert> you have my best wishes :)
<ddevault> thank you
<FatAlbert> yw
<j`ey> ddevault: 6 weeks is 1 aug
<ddevault> your mathemtical skills are remarkable
<j`ey> ty
<j`ey> i wasnt sure if that was intentional or not
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<zid`> how many weeks is an ak-47
<ddevault> 47
<ddevault> the hint is in the name
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<psykose> but maybe that's 47 days
<ddevault> oh hey psykose
<ddevault> thanks for the quick reviews on aports this morning
<psykose> :)
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<psykose> was https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/35439 still meant to be merged or is it just non-esr
<bslsk05> ​gitlab.alpinelinux.org: testing/himitsu-firefox-esr: new aport (!35439) · Merge requests · alpine / aports · GitLab
<ddevault> can be closed
<Ermine> Not the best place to discuss that but ok
<psykose> just a little lazy to tab buffers :p
<psykose> and you can't tell me this place is ever on topic
<j`ey> on the odd occasion
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<heat> I'd just like to interject for a moment
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* kingoffrance hands heat the conch
<kingoffrance> i believe that was more or less token ring
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<zid`> sorry for interrupting you heat but
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<mrvn> oh no, the token must have fallen out of the ring.
<bslsk05> ​tpm.amastelek.com: Dilbert: Token-ring
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<FatAlbert> she got a smile that it seems to em
<FatAlbert> heat: it turns out to be that vscodevim also includes easyomtion which is the vim plugin i wanted for vscode :)
<sbalmos> heat was trying cooperative channel chatter. should've just preempted. ;) everyone gets a channel quantum to sa... *interrupted*
* geist yawns
<geist> good afternoon folks!
* mjg_ yawns back
* mjg_ codes something for fan for the first time in weeks
<mjg_> fun even
<mjg_> upside of slack: i could have edited the above
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<geist> oh cool
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<sbalmos> *yawn* is it Friday yet?
<psykose> yeah
<sbalmos> if (!time::current_day()->day_of_week == time::DayOfWeek::Friday) { reality::current_mental_state->block(); }
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<heat> SIGCONT
<heat> What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
<sbalmos> heat: SIGCONT handler is a while-not-Friday loop :P
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<geist> reading the xtensa arch manual, it's fairly interesting bt nothing to write home about
<geist> the register window is kinda funny, so it has an odd ABI thats definitely strange
<geist> though not so much to people that are used to register windows at least
<sbalmos> never heard of it. another neat little core?
<heat> i think xtensa is pretty old lol
<geist> sort of. it's a synthesizable core from Cadence. Mostly aware of it because it is in ESP32, though ESP32 is moving towards riscv
<geist> but doug16k was fiddling wit it the other day so got me to looking up the arch manual
<sbalmos> ah, yeah okay I remember it being mentioned now
<geist> otherwise mostly a regular looking risc cpu with some DSP extensions: https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/34PTqPj8T
<geist> 16 registers, can rotate by 4 8 or 12 on call entry (that's the call4/call8/call12) so there's some interesting arg passing and return going on there
<geist> ie, in that case it puts args in a10/11/12 and uses a call8, which rotates the registers down by 8, so the incoming args are in a2/3/4
<geist> a0/a1 are always the return address + stack pointer, which gets copied in the entry basically, so yo uget a fresh copy of the return address and stack
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<geist> the N of how far the register window was rotated is orred into the saved PC in a0 (top 2 bits it seems)
<geist> that's how the ret instruction knows how much register window to uncover
<geist> (16 registers, so a0-a15)
<sbalmos> oh fun
<geist> anyway, just a little mystery i wanted to solve. it's not that interesting, but i like different cpu architectures just cause
<sbalmos> in the meantime, I've been shamefully hanging my head over the weekend and today, trying to concretely remind myself exactly how a thread blocks, waits, is woken up, etc. Obviously know the theory. Just down to concrete impl stuff. Took far too long to really boil it down to thread.state = State::Blocked; scheduler::switch();
<sbalmos> catching up on a hobby you wanted to get into 20 years ago, right out of college, is hell.
<geist> usually my strategy is the state is mostly contined in whether or not the thread is 'discoverable' by the scheduler or not
<geist> ie, the thread structure is in one list most of the time (or running)
<sbalmos> ya
<geist> if it's in the scheduler list it's ready to run, if it's sitting on a wait queue, it's blocked
<geist> if it's running it's 'owned' by the cpu
<geist> only time it may be in no list at all is when it's sleeping, or suspended, but theres other tracking data to get it back i nto the run queue
<sbalmos> it was more fundamental than that. The whole idea of a blocking read basically boiling down to a driver literally yielding, like cooperative multitasking
<geist> in that sort of design the state enum on the thread is moslty there so you can quickly determine what to do with it when you run an operation against it
<geist> well, i think with a wait queue style design the whole idea of a blocking read is the driver provides/has a primitive to put the current thread on until some point in the future that the driver wakes it up
<sbalmos> right
<geist> so the thread just appears blocked on something, but the something is the driver's responsibility
<sbalmos> gets into mutexes and poll-waiters, etc. but from the fundamental perspective, it gets into the mutex now being the point that literally calls yield
<geist> here's a fairly trivial example out of my code: https://github.com/littlekernel/lk/blob/master/dev/virtio/block/virtio-block.c#L371 is when the virtio-blk driver makes a request and then just tosses the current thread on an event_t (which is basically a simple wrapper around a wait queue)
<bslsk05> ​github.com: lk/virtio-block.c at master · littlekernel/lk · GitHub
<sbalmos> otherwise a "blocking read" by a driver could be stupidly implemented by an idiot driver writer and actually busy-wait rather than actually really blocking
<geist> it's woken up at the bottom of the irq handler here: https://github.com/littlekernel/lk/blob/master/dev/virtio/block/virtio-block.c#L263
<bslsk05> ​github.com: lk/virtio-block.c at master · littlekernel/lk · GitHub
<sbalmos> ya
<sbalmos> it's funny how much I remember from college, conceptually, but it's reading it in code that clicks
<geist> it's a very simple driver since it doesn't allow queing. the blocking thread is holding a mutex across the operation which keeps only one thread in there
<geist> yah figured that might help
<geist> if it was more of a queued/multi io thing then the driver needs to build up some notion of pending transactions, and probably put a wait queue (event_t) in each of those, so the individual thread can wait on an individual transaction
<sbalmos> at the very least I was reading Redox source and already tilting my head at some stuff they do in there, either seemed left-over or really... not right
<geist> and then the irq handler would have to disambiguate which transaction the irq is completing and wake up the appropriate thread, etc
<sbalmos> yup
<geist> yah i glanced a bit at the redox stuff. i'm mostly chalking it up to not knowing rust that well, but i kinda get the impression it's written by folks that haven't done a lot of osdev
<geist> but i may just be not grokking rust
<sbalmos> nah it's not that. I don't know much rust either. But I tend to pick up on new languages, etc /very/ quickly once I actively start using them. And even then I've quickly gotten the sense of a lot of their code organization, you get that instinctual feeling things aren't right
<geist> rust may tend to force you down a particularly unoptimal path for this sort of thing, though
<geist> it always seems like the ownership model would work against you for a lot of these core 'toss this on a list and get to it from some other context' style stuff that tends to be in the deep of kernels
<sbalmos> dunno yet, honestly
<heat> sbalmos, usually the busy-wait drivers are the best ones ;)
<sbalmos> heh
<heat> as in, actively tuned and feature complete
<sbalmos> WTF did my CPU jet engine just take off? I was just trying to read a file!
<heat> intel mac moment
<heat> I introduce to you: RWF_HIPRI (man 2 preadv2)
<sbalmos> geist: took me a long while to find the entrypoint from gigaboot was actually top/main.cc . Kept looking in all kinds of other places.
<heat> kernel block device polling!
<geist> ah well, entry to the kernel you mean?
<sbalmos> YUP
<sbalmos> gah, sorry
<geist> it's not entirely true, the entry is actually in arch/<arch>/start.S
<geist> it then eventually calls kmain()
<sbalmos> well yeah, I was there first
<geist> top/main.cc is basically just the first part of the C code
<sbalmos> right, just on my neverending quest to trace-read the process
<sbalmos> bad enough CLion doesn't set up header search paths without a CMakeLists file, so I can't ctrl-click the header file includes :D
<heat> doesnt it use compile_commands.json?
<geist> sbalmos: you'll also note that the structure is basically the same as LK, that part hasn't really changed much
<geist> you'll see a lot of shared DNA there
<sbalmos> ya
<sbalmos> heat: /supposedly/ it should. but I have yet to get the project to recognize it on opening.
<sbalmos> hang on. this might be a difference in how IDEA/CLion, a few vers back, changed their open structure. It didn't recognize if I opened from the fuchsia dir, but is now asking if I want to treat the file as a project if I tried to open compile_commands.json directly
<geist> yah the compile_commands works pretty good, tough it's the whole shebang, including non kernel stuff
<geist> i have also been running a ctags over the whole thing which mostly works, though there are some kernel headers and whatout outside of the kernel dir
<sbalmos> I think I'm going to have to blow away all the previously generated .idea dirs. It's still not recognizing any headers
<geist> heads up: i think there's some deconstruction of the zircon dir that's about to happen, so stuff will move around soon
<geist> the incessant need to move things around in the source repo is a constant among the project, but i think it'll end up getting move to src/zircon/kernel or something, but some of the other bits in zircon/ are going elsewhere
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<sbalmos> <Bones> "I know engineers, they love to change things..."
<heat> jeez, again? :/
<heat> clangd works fine but for a lot of files it needs some arguments to not blow up your machine
<sbalmos> good thing I don't really need my home desktop here for another 20 minutes while it chews through the indexing. ;)
<sbalmos> bah, stupid WSL
<psykose> heat: what arguments? :)
<heat> --background-indexing=false?
<heat> --background-index even
<heat> so, --background-index=false
<psykose> thanks!
<heat> although after re-reading clangd docs this doesn't seem that great of an idea
<heat> i usually just take the hit upfront
<sbalmos> ooof, stupid lack of symlink following in \\wsl$ paths
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<liz> feeling very silly... spent a lot of time prodding my machine code to diagnose a PIC issue, only to realise i forgot to add an sti instruction in protected mode
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<geist> oh eep
<geist> yeah that'll do it
<geist> though that's better than the other, having sti enabled when you're not ready for it. that's harder to debug
<sbalmos> geist: unsurprisingly I'm finding reading lk a lot more straightforward than zircon. probably just a sheer size thing.
<geist> yeah the zircon stuff has gotten much larger, though the structure is somewhat the same
<sbalmos> it is, more or less. so lk doesn't have any IPC stuff by what I can tell, right?
<clever> j`ey: not sure, ive not used it here
<j`ey> clever: got it working in the end, was an oopsie on my side
<geist> not too much, it does have a central 'port' mechanism, but the general idea is that only if it's really really cross-functionally useful does it get promoted to 'core' primitive
<geist> whereas various sub projects have built their own mechanisms for what they do
<geist> general overall idea being that LK is simplicity first
<sbalmos> yup, saw the port, and that's what I figured thinking it further
<geist> pretty much all of the core code is not fundamentally ipc based. more of a traditional blocking primitives and from that one builds queues/etc
<sbalmos> zircon probably builds the idea of a channel and everything else on top of a port and some mutexes, etc if it's to block. easily compose a message "mailbox" on top of that
<sbalmos> yup
<clever> j`ey: what was it?
<geist> precisely. port i dont think survived, but for the msot part mutex/event/wait queue/semaphores are still there, just converted to C++ and beefed up a bit
<sbalmos> oh hell it's almost 6:30 already. haven't even thought of dinner.
<geist> and all the higher level zircon code is built on top of it. LK is very much still there as the core to the whole thing, it's just been converted to C++
<geist> and certain scaling decisions have been made that involve rebuilding some things
<geist> (ie, the scheduler)
<sbalmos> well it's basically the same as how Darwin is really Mach at the original core, etc
<geist> yah, and over time they diverge but the DNA is still there
<j`ey> clever: I was printing a small amount of characters before hanging. I had a 'sleep 1 ; screen /dev/pts/N' loop in another terminal.. and the printing was so quick it had already always output stuff during the time it was sleeping
<clever> j`ey: ah, ive seen basically the same problem with MCU's emulating a usb tty
<clever> i think if you use -S to start qemu, it will create the tty, but halt the cpu
<clever> then you can resume it at a time of your choosing
<j`ey> clever: via the monitor I suppose?
<clever> yeah
<sbalmos> geist: funny (not really) how this is easier to wade through than Minix or others, when you kinda know what you're looking for and know what it's supposed to look like on paper, but not fully in code.
<clever> the monitor should also let you query what tty the serial landed on
<clever> and you can rig the monitor into a unix socket if you want to automate it all
<geist> sbalmos: that's been generally my strategy. i need to write many more docs for LK, but i'm so bad a it
<geist> zircon, i'd hope it's still easy, but frankly the code we're writing is not really designed to be easy to read, somewhat to my chagrin
<geist> i try, but it's a non-goal of the project, alas
<sbalmos> yeah :/
<sbalmos> it's turned from research/academic keep-it-studyable to commercial
<j`ey> thats why LK must live :D
<geist> yah, it's sort of the inevitability of it, alas
<geist> i *do* encourage folks to write docs for LK if your'e bored. there's a wiki next to it
<geist> and i haven't figured out precisely what i want to do re:wiki vs .md files, but all else held equal probably starting with the wiki is not a bad idea
<geist> can at least flatten some of that out
<sbalmos> I mean the Fuchsia dev docs do a great job on their own. But not so much from a "here's how things map in the directory structure / function-name level" past the syscall function names
<bslsk05> ​github.com: nixpkgs/machine.py at master · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub
<clever> j`ey: this will run qemu with -monitor unix:/path/to/socket
<geist> sbalmos: yeah agreed. and worse we keep rearranging things. for better or worse google has no fear constantly reformatting/refactoring/moving. i think that's part of the DNA of the company
<sbalmos> and it's taken me a while to learn to properly spell Fuchsia. :P
<sbalmos> ayup
<geist> incessantly redo things. i think it does actually work in the long run, but it doesn't make it easy to find thins
<j`ey> clever: cool, maybe unix socket is better than guessing the pts will be N because I have N-1 terminals open :P
<geist> i fought it for a whiel, but really it's just The Way.
<geist> also git makes it at least a lot easier to deal with than older SCMs
<sbalmos> geist: there's constantly stuff in FIDL I still can't find where it's defined
<clever> j`ey: one sec
<geist> you should see the internal mailing lists that are constantly 'X is being replaced by Y'
<sbalmos> heh
<geist> oh oops, i just let my machine OOM building clang
<geist> wasn't paying attention while typing here :)
<geist> 64GB and just blew through 32GB of swap in a few seconds
<j`ey> JOB_POOL_LINK, use it!
<geist> and now it's totally frozen. j`ey oh? how does one?
<sbalmos> heheheheh
<geist> -DJOB...?
<j`ey> yeah
<geist> will give it a go when i get back. gotta run to the store
<bslsk05> ​cmake.org: JOB_POOL_LINK — CMake 3.24.0-rc1 Documentation
<sbalmos> geist: ultimately THANK YOU
<clever> (qemu) qom-get /chardevs/serial0 type
<clever> "chardev-pty"
<clever> j`ey: i assume that soemwhere in here, is the pty name it randomly allocated
<geist> sbalmos: oh really? thanks! it actually really does keep me going to find that someone finds this stuff helpful
<geist> hmm, i always feel a little dangerous turning a computer off that's stuck in OOM hell
<sbalmos> do it!
<geist> but i gotta
<sbalmos> fsck solves world (memory) hunger
<j`ey> clever: probably, for now I can just hardcode it
<clever> yep, found it
<clever> (qemu) info chardev
<clever> serial0: filename=pty:/dev/pts/24
<j`ey> ty, added to my notes
<clever> so, you can either route the serial to a unix socket
<clever> or you can route monitor to a unix socket, and query which pty it wound up on, and pause/resume the machine when your ready
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<klange> and for meatbag use, the latter prints it on startup
<gog> hi, am meatbag
<sbalmos> multipass?
<gog> MUL-TI-PASS
<klange> that's "meat popcicle".
<gog> there's a user that kicks around libera named azizLIGHT
<sbalmos> lol
<klange> Fifth Element is my all-time favorite live action film.
<gog> i love it, it's a solid vehicle for bruce willis and milla jovovich
<gog> just a fund mindless film
<gog> fun
<gog> sometimes i say "chickan--good!" when i have chicken :p
<zid`> cheeken
<zid`> goed
<sbalmos> I may have to eventually name my userspace critical-server watchdog process Mondoshawan
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<klange> I live by the words of Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg: If you want something done, do it yourself.
<sbalmos> klange: ultimately, if it doesn't work out, just press the little red button
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<bslsk05> ​'Silicon Photonics: The Next Silicon Revolution?' by Asianometry (00:15:45)
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* geist mentions Everything Everywhere all at Once again. Fantastic movie
<j`ey> weird and fantastic
<mjg_> hm
<geist> I watched a bunch of making of, and am also pleasantly surprised to see it was pretty cheap to make and they were very scrappy with mostly practical effects
<geist> Sort of an anti-Marvell movie in terms of sci if and action
<mjg_> :))
<mjg_> in that case adding to my watchlsit
<j`ey> but still multiverse :p
<mjg_> which part of "everything everywhere all at once" you missed
<mjg_> :>
<geist> But still multiverse yeah. The creators said they were a little bummed that multiverse stuff got popular recently, because they’ve been basically working on it for like 10 years, but so it goes
<geist> OTOH maybe it primes audiences a bit to deal with the multiverse stuff in general.
<klys> one of a select few movies i did see
<geist> Yah i think it was the first one I’ve seen in a theater since the start of the pandemic
<zid`> lmk when it's on iptorrents
<moon-child> iptorrents? Isn't that a really trashy torrent tracker?
<zid`> not trashy in the least
<geist> Honestly this is such a good movie and indie enough that they deserve your money
<zid`> I don't have any money
<geist> Fine, but just sayin.
<zid`> all I can do is watch it then recommend to others to buy it
<zid`> or not, depending :p
<zid`> like, all my friends have seen primer because I wouldn't shut up about it
<geist> Indeed, thats one i didn’t shut up about either for a few years
<geist> Now that I’ve forgotten enough of it i should watch it again
<zid`> TIL qemu supports memory mapped shm between host and guest
<zid`> -object memory-backed-file,size=size
<geist> Yup. You can also file back the entire physical address space that way
<geist> One way to pre-fill it with random data
<geist> And if you use a COW file system or whatnot you can easily track deltas
<zid`> I should use -memory-backend or whatever to make that my vga memory
<zid`> and make my host machine repaint the background image as a gif or something
<geist> I have no idea what the performance impact of actually backing it to disk would be though, seems like Linux would be fairly furiously writing it back to try to get modified state to zero
<geist> But backing it to tmpfs or whatnot would be a way to get basically anonymous memorybacking it, but be able to examine the contents post-facto or whatnot
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<geist> I thought i had read that some VM hosting solutions did that for some benefit