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https://barebox.org/demo being the correct link..

We are using JSLinux over at https://barebox.org/webdemo to let potential users see the conveniences of the bootloader's shell without having to flash it to actual hardware. I am g…

barebox can be compiled as EFI payload and used on Desktop systems. The main impediment is packaging it for the OS and scripting the hooks that would write e.g. bootloader spec fil…

Nice writeup! This reminds me of the barebox bootloader April fools two years back, which will connect you to #barebox, when all other boot targets fail[1]. :-) The focus there was…

Quote: "PyPI has wrongfully classified project Cheetah3 as “critical”. This puts a burden to use 2FA to manage the project at PyPI. To avoid the burden the project is renamed to CT…

I had used Doomgeneric as basis for bareDOOM; DOOM running within the barebox bootloader. Back then there was no sound, but it was fun adding support for PWM PC speakers. If curiou…

I've been using bootloader specifications in a number of embedded system projects and I really like it. The only configuration that's required for you in the bootloader is to selec…

UCS-2 is always 2 octets, UTF-16 allows for so-called surrogate pairs which expands the bits available making it variable size.

Getting DOOM to run macOS was straight forward. Lacks sound though: https://github.com/a3f/doom

AFAIK, A process isn't required to have a stack.

You had a VGA controller? That's nice. I had to design my own back in the days. https://github.com/a3f/r3k.vhdl/tree/Demo-v1/vhdl/io/vga