Mistakes Were Made: How ARM & IBM devs broke Linux kernel SPARC64 support!

[@Acetyl53]

Sensational ACTION oriented video TITLES with words CAPITALIZED leading to BLACKLISTED CHANNELS. WHOA.

[@lawrencemanning]

According to Wikipedia, Fujitsu will sell there last SPARC in 2027. Oracle have already given up (2017). It’s jolly sad that we’ve been left with x86, ARM and maybe RISC-V.

[@NotMarkKnopfler]

Be careful all... Watching this video may get you SWAT teamed! 😅 (Glad you're okay 👍)

[@joseoncrack]

To be fair, I'm not sure how this could *not* happen, with such a huge code base and so many different platforms supported, with inevitably some platforms becoming de facto priorities and breaking stuff for other, less common platforms. I reckon the process could be improved, but I'm not quite sure how exactly.

[@theevilcottonball]

I am waiting til the point when Rene switches the colors of the diff, since the new code is always broken it should be colored red with the old in green.

[@adrian_sp6def]

where I can read more about John Carmack debugging solution?

[@crossbowbeat]

We all gonna die!!!!

[@Towersfam43232]

bro is going nuts for sure

[@Rushi-q9o]

Are you a solo developer or do you have a team?

[@MoreReneRebe]

Yes

[@moussaadem7933]

seems mostly solo

[@foansmusic5603]

Rene I love this channel. Please let me make some better music for your introduction lol

[@thextrmntr]

wut. no. its the best music. wish it was longer

[@MoreReneRebe]

github.com/rxrbln/t2sde/issues/180

[@nou712]

Hey, maybe this is the wrong place to ask but, where can i find more info on the arm devices T2 supports? I am looking at some armv7 Olimex Allwinner boards and i wish to know what works and what does not work, like hdmi out, USB?

[@Bruno_Haible]

Yes, my Debian 9 (Linux 4.9) sparc64 VM works fine, whereas my T2SDE (Linux 6.6) sparc64 is unstable: kernel panics, compiler crashes etc.

[@MoreReneRebe]

Yes,, I'm sorry upstream broke the kernel and libc, I spend half this month to fix most of it: dl.t2linux.com/binary/2024/incoming/t2-24.8-sparc64-base-wayland-glibc-gcc-ultrasparc3.iso

[@vkoskiv]

I recently got me an Ultra 5. I tried gentoo and debian, but neither worked, I think at least debian wanted more than 128MB of memory for initramfs.

[@anam-0077]

Glad to see again 😂

[@boomboxwagon]

how do i learn to make my own packages and maintain them etc

[@MoreReneRebe]

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[@wznzgq1354]

so what did he got swatted for?

[@MoreReneRebe]

How should I know?

[@wznzgq1354]

@@MoreReneRebe i mean you are the guy who got swatted and they didn't tell you?

[@MoreReneRebe]

@@wznzgq1354 ah, I thought you mean what I did to get swatted, what I was accused of is in the summary: extended suicide, homicide of my wife and now I'm about to take my life someone wrote in my name to the police by email. In the meantime I learned apparently rather standard SWATting 101 or so, ... :-/

[@pavelprchal8625]

Maybe wrong question. But is sparc really important? For me it's something from galaxy far far away. Just curious :)

[@MoreReneRebe]

@@pavelprchal8625 sold until some years ago, maybe still is. No need to break users nice machines, …

[@ronald3836]

Now that Darth Vader has died, sparc64 support can be removed.

[@XantheFIN]

I am waiting X86-64 support removal due ARM is getting wind and people moving on it.

[@jhkcreates]

Important? Now. But this is culture. It's the engineering efforts of an untold number of people some of them have since moved on from this world. It's just sad to throw all that away just because...

[@ronald3836]

@@jhkcreates if there are no maintainers...

[@32zim32]

That's what rust devs are trying to tell. You need a stronger type system which can verify at compile time some invariants. When all your flags are just ints and chars there is nothing which can prevent you from doing totally crazy stuff. I caj only imagine how many bugs could be avoided just by using strong type system which guarantees some invariants at compile time

[@joseoncrack]

You would like Ada.

[@MoreReneRebe]

As I said in the video, would have happened in rust with strong types, too!

[@theevilcottonball]

36:00 Funny typo in the search box.

[@zungaloca]

Nixos masterrace

[@MoreReneRebe]

But have you tried T2?

[@hiYouareaclown]

Recently I replaced my system with devuan and xfce, which uses the original design of sysvinit. It is really good. Systemd is a bloated piece of garbage. I don’t know why the Linux distribution replaced this good thing. It’s ridiculous. original designer of systemd was redhat, a subsidiary of IBM. Their AIX still uses sysv style init.

[@thesaurus1523]

AIX will probably be put on maintenance mode soon. IBM bought RedHat as a strategic move to have a more popular first party OS for their Z architecture imo.

[@MoreReneRebe]

Sounds like you will love T2 Linux ;-)