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| <sad_plan> | I was going to say alpine doesnt provide riscv rootfs's, or isos, but then I saw it |
| <sad_plan> | its only a mini rootfs though, not isos |
| <sad_plan> | but yes, if alpine runs, most other things should for sure run |
| <midfavila> | the build process for the r01 image calls for a rootfs only |
| <sad_plan> | why? is this a riscv thing or a uconsole thing or..? |
| <midfavila> | basically entails creating a raw disk image, partitioning and formatting it, injecting the spl and uboot into the first 32m, |
| <midfavila> | then installing grub (and syslinux???) onto the boot partition and pointing that at the rootfs |
| <midfavila> | its a uconsole thing i think |
| <sad_plan> | I see |
| <midfavila> | its weird |
| <sad_plan> | yeah |
| <midfavila> | they dont have good docs at all |
| <sad_plan> | hopefully itll come once riscv gets a better foothold |
| <midfavila> | it wont |
| <midfavila> | i think the r01 was intended mostly as a novelty |
| <midfavila> | which sucks because its a great som |
| <midfavila> | add emmc to it and id be cheesed |
| <midfavila> | even moreso if you replaced the sd slot with a CF one |
| <midfavila> | or had both |
| <sad_plan> | whats so good about emmc? ive always found it restricting |
| <sad_plan> | CF? |
| <midfavila> | not needing an sd card to boot off of |
| <midfavila> | compactflash |
| <sad_plan> | well, sure thats an advantage. |
| <sad_plan> | whats that? |
| <midfavila> | basically miniaturised IDE |
| <midfavila> | used in cameras a lot |
| <sad_plan> | hm |
| <midfavila> | old iPods used it for their 1.8" HDDs |
| <midfavila> | some industrial machines use it as primary storage instead of a full size disk |
| <sad_plan> | I see |
| <sad_plan> | got it |
| <sad_plan> | its smol |
| <midfavila> | smol, cheap, easy to support |
| <sad_plan> | and more reliable than sdcards aswell? |
| <midfavila> | fits with the retrofuture aesthetic |
| <midfavila> | less of a bitch to get in and out |
| <midfavila> | afaik yes |
| <sad_plan> | nice |
| <midfavila> | since most CFs are used in cameras etc |
| <sad_plan> | sdcards and usbsticks are horrendiously unreliable for storage initially |
| <midfavila> | im sure high performance SD cards are competitive but i honestly dont know |
| <sad_plan> | i think I remember those now that you mention it. i think my dad had one of them in a digital camera. unless someone else in the family had it |
| <midfavila> | yeah i need to set up a script to sync my homedirs between my lappy and uconsole |
| <sad_plan> | yeah, im hoping to get an sdcard for my pi tomorrow, and a new cable for it, so that I can use it to rsync some stuff myself |
| <midfavila> | then i need to get plan9port running on the uconsole >w> |
| <sad_plan> | nice |
| <midfavila> | i honestly love this lil thing |
| <sad_plan> | have you tried compiling upstream 9front stuff instead of p9p? some of it should work right ootb |
| <sad_plan> | rc atleast, or so Ive been told |
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