Rust wgpu now has a
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@mcc rockchip makes SoCs that are suitable to use in a laptop that have powervr cores
@bob If I had the rest of the stack, then this would be a good solution in terms of "everything's deslopped except my AMD GPU; I'll just switch to the rockchip to fix that part". But since the stack is full of holes, it feels more productive to fix a hole further up the stack than try to make a project out of reorienting myself around a random Chinese company's that might get rugpulled like my last three solutions were.
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@mcc In 2043 mcc creates the last truly slop-free, hardware-accelerated video game using Vulkan SC on a retired 737 Cockpit Display System. Worldwide only four systems remain capable of running the game as intended after the FAA and EASA finally embraced Generative AI and the population learned to accept the catastrophic loss of %0.018 of flights.
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@mcc for completeness, i already had a PoC of this btw that i'm planning to revive https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2022-09-29-rkx7-showcase.html
@mntmn This exact page three-four years ago is literally what started me thinking about the linux-integrated FPGA GPU lol
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@crzwdjk That's some good clear thinking, thank you.
I am not sure but I think the bridge-to-GPU layer in Linux goes through a middle step named "DRI" or "DRM", and I think Redox plans to adopt this wholesale. I don't know to what extent DRI/DRM is about just *configuring* displays and to what extent if you've implemented the DRI/DRM layer then Mesa just does the rest for free.
@mcc DRI/DRM is the kernel part which handles confiuring displays, but also allocating memory for the GPU and managing the submission of command buffers to the GPU. The commands in the command buffers are produced by Mesa though.
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@mcc DRI/DRM is the kernel part which handles confiuring displays, but also allocating memory for the GPU and managing the submission of command buffers to the GPU. The commands in the command buffers are produced by Mesa though.
@crzwdjk Thanks for these explanations.
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@mcc In 2043 mcc creates the last truly slop-free, hardware-accelerated video game using Vulkan SC on a retired 737 Cockpit Display System. Worldwide only four systems remain capable of running the game as intended after the FAA and EASA finally embraced Generative AI and the population learned to accept the catastrophic loss of %0.018 of flights.
@ptrchas3 @mcc I have much hope in the gamebub [https://www.crowdsupply.com/second-bedroom/game-bub]
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@mntmn This exact page three-four years ago is literally what started me thinking about the linux-integrated FPGA GPU lol
@mcc oh that's awesome! back then linux wasn't yet sloppified too, simpler times
next thing i'd like to try on this is haiku. also, there's a lot more performant (and OoO) risc-v soft cores now -
@bob What got me into this problem in the first place was that a product produced by a corporation may be discontinued, or be replaced with something that requires unacceptable compromises. PowerVR may go out of business, be bought by AMD, or become an AI company like the rest of them. If the goal was to just keep old stuff working and running, I could just stay on Windows 10 forever, keep binary-hacking it as new CVEs are found, and then I don't to put up with the many downsides of Linux.
@mcc but your fpga gpu is tied to a particular fpga (unless you make changes) so then you're tied to amd/xilinx or altera or lattice
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@froge About half of the rest of the thread is about open hardware.
I don't know if my current computer can run LibreBoot or not. I don't know for an absolute fact what the LibreBoot maintainer's values regarding "AI code assistants" is.
@mcc@mastodon.social yeah I realized, I need to get better about reading the entire thread before commenting on one post tbh
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@mcc oh that's awesome! back then linux wasn't yet sloppified too, simpler times
next thing i'd like to try on this is haiku. also, there's a lot more performant (and OoO) risc-v soft cores now@mcc my fantasy is something a bit like the mega65, or other retro fpga things (mister), in the reform next shell, and with quickly swappable cores that can share files, so you can try many different old/new/homebrew computers/os on the same set of (your) data. i think linux is mostly not really fun on simple hardware, so i agree with your desire of adopting sth like redox. personally i'd try to do sth as simple as possible but with memory protection (the one thing 90s OSes weren't great at)
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Anyway, I spent the last week writing documentation for Redox. The Redox project seems to be happy for my documentation patches. One thimble full of water, out of the sinking boat.
@mcc It's very important for both our personal and social well-being to find concrete tasks we can do with our skillset and/or limitations. I'm really interested in your project/s, even though sometimes I don't fully understand them. Slopfree software is important to have! And every thimble is important.
So yeah. I'm extending a hug to you. You're not alone, and your frustration is super understandable. Take care, one day at a time!
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Anyway, I spent the last week writing documentation for Redox. The Redox project seems to be happy for my documentation patches. One thimble full of water, out of the sinking boat.
@mcc Hey, thanks for speaking out about this. I'm already sponsoring servo but I'll look at contributing to Redox or Servo if I ever get the spoons !
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This thread is probably meandering and maybe solipsistic. My point is this: My weird background means I can look at this staircase full of missing stairs, identify one step, and go, "I can fix that". But I don't know if there's enough of me to fix multiple steps. I haven't decided what to do from here. Pick a step and fix it anyway? Pick a "fun" project, like the GPU [which face it, even if I finished it chances are not high more than 3 people would ever use it]? Give up and learn electric bass?
@mcc ::thumps bass::
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@mcc Hey, thanks for speaking out about this. I'm already sponsoring servo but I'll look at contributing to Redox or Servo if I ever get the spoons !
@spawnie I was surprised and impressed with how far along Redox is. I hope to install it sometime this month.
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@mcc It's very important for both our personal and social well-being to find concrete tasks we can do with our skillset and/or limitations. I'm really interested in your project/s, even though sometimes I don't fully understand them. Slopfree software is important to have! And every thimble is important.
So yeah. I'm extending a hug to you. You're not alone, and your frustration is super understandable. Take care, one day at a time!
@ciatmusings Thank you for sending this
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@mcc my fantasy is something a bit like the mega65, or other retro fpga things (mister), in the reform next shell, and with quickly swappable cores that can share files, so you can try many different old/new/homebrew computers/os on the same set of (your) data. i think linux is mostly not really fun on simple hardware, so i agree with your desire of adopting sth like redox. personally i'd try to do sth as simple as possible but with memory protection (the one thing 90s OSes weren't great at)
@mcc (the mega65 is my example because it is nicely done physically, fully open, and has swappable fpga cores, you can run an amiga core on it instead of c65/c64/c128)
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@ciatmusings Thank you for sending this
@mcc you're welcome! Hang in there!
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@mcc for completeness, i already had a PoC of this btw that i'm planning to revive https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2022-09-29-rkx7-showcase.html
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@mcc (the mega65 is my example because it is nicely done physically, fully open, and has swappable fpga cores, you can run an amiga core on it instead of c65/c64/c128)
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I am not the only person who wants what I want: Software by humans for humans, the ability to "use a computer" without participating in this horrible thing that AI companies are trying to build out of what used to be society. Everybody's grabbed the task closest to them. I know of a slopfree book ereader. I know of a slopfree password manager. We're all dependent on stuff further down the stack, and the stack became tall at some point, and only a few items in the stack have a slopfree principle.
@mcc the bit of the stack currently causing me anguish is text shaping. HarfBuzz is the One True Library for this and the maintainer is pretty all-in on Claude. This transitively effects... all web browsers (including Servo), most TeX variants (including typst), and every major OSS GUI framework 🫠
... This Zynq 7010 board on my desk is feeling quite inferior.