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my123

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About my123

kernel/hv engineer, ec2 accelerated nitro @ aws

my own words, not my employer's

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    Comment #49196405

    Windows NT on PowerPC was an actual product, although running in 32-bit mode.

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    Comment #49187486

    A big chunk of the problem is planning/political: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Line_(Maryland) > A March 2025 report by the Maryland comptroller's office found that permitt…

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    Comment #48811295

    And for the Jetsons btw still uses device tree with custom kernels but at least it's UEFI from Orin onwards. For Jetson Orin and later: You can download an ISO from https://develop…

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    Comment #48811261

    No the Spark uses UEFI + ACPI Regular Ubuntu or Fedora ISOs do work out of the box Just needs the Nvidia GPU driver install afterwards (And the realtek 10gbe module oot, or blockli…

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    Comment #48693219

    It was true a long time ago for some particular cases, but is not true since quite some years now.

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    Comment #48652086

    > but the only build targets are i386 and amd64 arm64 ReactOS boots all the way to desktop with it being on the way to upstream too.

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    Comment #48522742

    NVIDIA's recent Nemotrons tend to be open training data and code. Probably as a base to use by people buying NVIDIA hardware to train their own.

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    Comment #48359282

    For the DGX Spark and OEM variants a big issue is that the ConnectX-7 is just not designed to have low power idle but instead to be efficient when loaded. NVIDIA already lowered po…

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    Comment #48153457

    Windows CE late in its lifetime (CE 6.0) had that go away with per-process address spaces.

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    Comment #48150714

    Not much public yet about VRE virtualisation (which includes SEP) at this point. > whose only purpose would be to capture those HVCs quite expensive because you get to trap ~ all E…

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    Comment #48149843

    > HCR_EL2.HCD That's not ideal because of: > Any resulting exception is taken to the Exception level at which the HVC instruction is executed. instead of trapping to the hypervisor…

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    Comment #48148554

    It was a kernel panic for Tahoe. Anything between macOS 12 and 26 wasn't tested so releases in-between might have more issues. The userspace reboot after FileVault password entry a…

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    Comment #48146686

    FYI: https://patchew.org/QEMU/20260324204855.29759-1-mohamed@unpr... There's some randomness around Tahoe for FileVault and it crashing because Data is detected as not encrypted (a…

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    Comment #47859823

    > They ditched that once Rosetta support on ARM Macs was good enough to run x86_64 VMs, as apparently all they cared about was supporting Docker on Macs... Was a research project g…

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    Comment #47728002

    XNU has this oddity: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu/blob/f6217f89... Redacted from open source XNU, but exists in the closed source version

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    Comment #47615794

    After Power9, IBM became uncompetitive multi-core performance against mainstream server CPUs - both x86 and Arm. They didn't keep up with the rise in core counts. And the single th…

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    Comment #47545908

    Xcode needs an Apple ID for download but the macOS SDK and toolchain does not. Try to run any developer tool or "xcode-select install" and it'll download the command-line tools ind…

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    Comment #47525503

    There were two entirely separate DOS 4s The multi-tasking DOS 4 that had its next release be branded as OS/2 and the other one, a conventional DOS stopgap product

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    Comment #47388973

    > Which vendors already support this? One implementation I've seen in the wild is: https://docs.nvidia.com/jetson/archives/r36.4/DeveloperGuide... Secure Boot is still supported in…

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    Comment #47386328

    Note that UEFI doesn't mean supporting most of those. UEFI without runtime UEFI variable writes is a thing, and that configuration is incompatible with mokutil.