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[bridgman]

AFAIK there is a reference ISA simulator plus a version of QEMU with RISC-V emulation. I believe QEMU was used for the porting/bootstrapping effort....

[bridgman]

Good luck with the upgrade. Fingers crossed....

[bridgman]

The forum SW is getting even more strange... twice now I edited the previous post, hit <save>, and the display went back to showing previous co...

[bridgman]

My understanding is that there are no restrictions on licensing others to use your works; you just are not able to give up your own rights.
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[bridgman]

Unapproved again. This really does seem to be happening a lot more often recently.

[bridgman]

Nothing wrong with that... it's probably gibberish to >99% of Linux users... basically anyone not actively involved in developing or testing/troubleshooting...

[bridgman]

New kernel driver, new libdrm, significant changes to the OS (kernel driver) interface layer of each userspace driver, while the rest of each userspace...

[bridgman]

We need to ban the word "firmware" except for use in folder names - it leads to too much confusion between HW microcode images and VBIOS/AtomBIOS....

[bridgman]

We are not working on a separate open source Vulkan driver, but we are working on opening up the currently-closed-source Vulkan driver....

[bridgman]

Just to avoid any misunderstandings... the amd-staging-4.7 tree is an internal development tree which contains latest amdgpu code on top of a 4.7 release...

[bridgman]

Hey, my last post was still unapproved so I retyped it from memory, and that one was unapproved as well

Something is seriously borked...

[bridgman]

Post hasn't appeared yet so will retype for now - just saying that tomorrow's DAL presentation is more of a walkthrough of design etc.., not announcing...

[bridgman]

Oh boy, unapproved again. I'm so lucky.

[bridgman]

Harry's talk is more about the DAL component itself - everyone is buried working on new HW support right now so I expect we'll get back to upstreaming...

[bridgman]

As dungeon said, we only release in source code form (DKMS package)... what we are not doing yet is pushing the hybrid kernel driver development tree...

[bridgman]

I have to think that an automated shotgun testing rig outside the house would be enough to discourage intruders.

"Don't go in that guy's...

[bridgman]

That doesn't sound right... I believe that is the "upstream staging" tree which does not have all the commits from the hybrid driver. The DKMS...

[bridgman]

That's essentially what they have today with the NCSA/UIUC license... essentially a bug-fixed X11 license.

AFAIK the problems they are trying...

[bridgman]

I was thinking about starting a thread titled "My Posts Sometimes Actually Appear Rather Than Going to Moderation Queue"

[bridgman]

I suspect that putting tweaks into the driver would be faster and safer than trying to do any kind of official VBIOS-flashing thing. If there was an easy...