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[Space Heater]

I don't think their names are publicly known. I believe the "uC" part stands for microcontroller, as they are firmware blobs for microcontrollers....

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If you've watched the talks from the teams that reverse engineered the Switch, they openly say it's not at all based on FreeBSD, so while it likely is...

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Linux still supports x86, don't confuse downstream distributions with the actual upstream kernel development project.

It's not as if FreeBSD's...

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The Nintendo Switch does not run FreeBSD, it uses an in-house microkernel called Horizon....

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Android has used a non-mainline LMK (low memory killer) and is now using PSI monitoring for OOM killer heuristics.

Chrome/ChromiumOS also...

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As some of the developers mentioned, pressure stall information will likely be the best way forward. Facebook and android are using it for exactly this...

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That sounds cool, I assume you meant Fedora 31 though? Is there a Fedora change proposal that documents how users will be able to switch between wpa_supplicant...

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I'm really hoping iwd will be essentially production ready in 2020 and distributions like Fedora start shipping it by default.

This video...

[Space Heater]

I think that's the kind of hard data that will be needed to go forward with increasing the ISA requirements.

Namely:

• Actual Fedora user

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Given that the people who are running Fedora are primarily volunteers, they (the volunteers) are the ones who make technical decisions - what else would...

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Then why were you ranting at me like an insane person about how ridiculous it is to require AVX2? I never suggested that was a good thing to do, yet a...

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Can you defend your position though? Supporting 32-bit x86 kernels isn't some trivial job, how do you make volunteers maintain it and test it? The harsh...

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It must suck not knowing how to read, I said "Clearly no one sane is in favor of mandating AVX2 support in Fedora 32".

The person...

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Fedora is largely run by volunteers, no one has stepped up to support 32-bit releases of Fedora in any serious way (testing, development, donations) -...

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Yeah I think it would be smart if Fedora moves up their base requirements to SSE3 or similar and then also add optional packages/repositories that are...

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BFQ wasn't merged until 4.12 as it had to be rewritten to be multiqueue-aware. Paolo is sending in improvements and fixes every release, which is not...

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Then you are using a kernel that is at least ~9 months old, I'd suggest you use a current kernel before you pass judgement on an I/O scheduler that is...

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How were you using CFQ if you switched to BFQ? CFQ doesn't exist anymore, once blk-mq became the default around the 4.20 release, the single queue block...