Viewing profile — ymz5

HFI itself is the Initiative (coordination, collaboration, standardization). HFI BIOS is the reference implementation.

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 t…

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 nouve…

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 imp…

Hmm.. how liteX is related to the QNX-inspired OS with selectable kernels? :)

Well, obviously: if it's "QNX-like", then it IS microkernel-based.

Don't worry, it's being fully supervised :) . Yes, almost the entire product is developed with Claude.

Right. That's why I love good text mode interfaces so much.

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…

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 …

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, 8…

Now on bare metal too: https://r-tty.blogspot.com/2026/04/qrv-v021-interactive-shel...

The system boots fully, in SMP mode, to the userspace shell.

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.

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 f…

"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…

The 17-year-old sources of QNX (to be found at github.com/vocho/openqnx) don't have a clearly-defined license file/status. In theory, one can use them, experiment with them, but th…

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.…