ymz5

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QNX-style ("Qnet") networking is available in QSOE 0.2(qsoe.net)
2 points by ymz5 13d ago|0 comments
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HFI: Harmonic Firmware Initiative for RISC-V(qsoe.net)
4 points by ymz5 2mo ago|1 comments
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by ymz5 2mo ago
HFI itself is the Initiative (coordination, collaboration, standardization). HFI BIOS is the reference implementation.
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by ymz5 3mo ago
Oh, don't worry (and thanks for the offer!) -- I'll soon have Artix 7 powered board (or may be even something "beefier"). At least the "Dragon Board" with Artix 7 I will need for the video controller for my Unm
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by ymz5 3mo ago
Exactly. After days of unsuccessful VideoBIOS bring-up (via U-Boot's emulator), I gave up, and implemented exactly what you suggested: graphics mode, using of course parts of nouveau. Claude Code is smart in extracting information. And
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by ymz5 3mo ago
Thanks for the clarification! Till today I didn't know you can build a 64-bit RISC-V CPU with LiteX. Cool! The only problem (for me) is the availability of suitable hardware to implement it :) The only FPGA board I got is GateMate EVB-
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by ymz5 3mo ago
Hmm.. how liteX is related to the QNX-inspired OS with selectable kernels? :)
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by ymz5 3mo ago
Well, obviously: if it's "QNX-like", then it IS microkernel-based.
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by ymz5 3mo ago
Don't worry, it's being fully supervised :) . Yes, almost the entire product is developed with Claude.
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by ymz5 3mo ago
Right. That's why I love good text mode interfaces so much.
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by ymz5 3mo ago
Fully support your dream -- and out of similar reason/sentiments I created GateMate PC (google for it) and GateMate S/359. I will return to these systems in autumn; it's a pure joy to work with them. As for the video controll
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by ymz5 3mo ago
Well.. who knows. My interests are not exactly in the area of GUIs, but I do agree that Photon was great. When the main system stabilizes; when it runs RT tests (such as the audio test I'm planning) under heavy load for e.g. one week -
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by ymz5 3mo ago
To all experts in video cards reading this: Do you know, how to initialize a NVidia card in the RISC-V system (such as Unmatched or Polarfire) to the basic VGA mode 3 (text mode, 80x25)? :) I really wanted to get the Real Console for QSOE,
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QSOE: QNX-inspired OS with dual-kernel architecture(qsoe-dev.blogspot.com)
53 points by ymz5 3mo ago|34 comments
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by ymz5 5mo ago
Now on bare metal too: https://r-tty.blogspot.com/2026/04/qrv-v021-interactive-shel...
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by ymz5 5mo ago
The system boots fully, in SMP mode, to the userspace shell.
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by ymz5 6mo ago
There is also an idea of attaching the RP2350 to the "mainframe". Olimex GateMateA1-EVB has plenty of lines to organize the parallel interface to e.g. Raspberry Pi Pico 2.
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NASM preprocessor turbo-charges the "mainframe-on-a-chip" assembler(gitlab.com)
3 points by ymz5 6mo ago|1 comments
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by ymz5 6mo ago
Well, there's a plan in case BB doesn't re-license. We will rewrite the proprietary parts of the kernel from scratch. It's not trivial, but possible. We could use seL4 as a basis for the "core" message-passing primi
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by ymz5 6mo ago
"read-only type license" -- that's a bit too strong wording. OTTAWA, September 12, 2007 — [...] QNX Software Systems today announced that it is opening access to the source code of its QNX® Neutrino® realtime operating system
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Does it make sense to ask Blackberry to re-license ancient QNX sources?
4 points by ymz5 6mo ago|3 comments
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by ymz5 6mo ago
Thanks, chrsw! I encourage people to join the petition to re-license old QNX sources under Apache 2.0. If Blackberry does so, we'll have another good and free microkernel-based OS.