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Re: Ask HN: What was the last task where only a frontier model could do it?

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Post by Gamemaster1379 »

marak830 wrote: post #24
Gamemaster1379 wrote: post #23

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You have to reach set hard principles for disassembly. I've been experimenting with this for about 6 months now, starting with 4.6 in February where it would do a hacky half ass buggy job of an NES game. I got a shitty PSX recompiler together in March. Been refining it since. This week along I stood up 5 different psx games and added widescreen to 4 of them and added an in memory injection English translation to anot…

If you did a write up of that I would be very interested. I assume a lot of others would be as well.

I've been in heavy build mode for a while so my docs are a bit dated. But the repo is here: https://github.com/mstan/psxrecomp/ and at the bottom of it a Discord community I started for like minded individuals. Happy to chat there in the interim to get things rolling.

Re: Ask HN: What was the last task where only a frontier model could do it?

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Post by Gamemaster1379 »

talloaktrees wrote: post #28
talloaktrees wrote: post #26

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Would be curious to learn more from you if you have any other guidance or details.

I found the blog post: https://1379.tech/i-built-a-ps1-static-recompiler-with-no-pr...

That'd be it! A lot has matured since then on the project. Still in heavy build mode, though.

Re: Ask HN: What was the last task where only a frontier model could do it?

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Post by ajeskey »

orangecat wrote: post #16

I wanted to see how Fable could do at getting Linux running natively on my M4 Mac mini. Turns out pretty well: it patched the Asahi installer and m1n1 bootloader to support M4, and created a workflow where it could build, push, and debug kernels with no interaction on my part after the initial setup. It's now happily running headless with ssh access, and hopefully will have video soon after a USB DisplayLink adapter…

Is the networking a USB gadget, or were you able to get around the PCIe + DART crux?

Re: Ask HN: What was the last task where only a frontier model could do it?

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Post by marak830 »

Gamemaster1379 wrote: post #31
marak830 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you did a write up of that I would be very interested. I assume a lot of others would be as well.

I've been in heavy build mode for a while so my docs are a bit dated. But the repo is here: https://github.com/mstan/psxrecomp/ and at the bottom of it a Discord community I started for like minded individuals. Happy to chat there in the interim to get things rolling.

Oh cool thanks for the link. I look forward to reading through it. (I've noped out of discord after their ID demands though, never using them again.)

Re: Ask HN: What was the last task where only a frontier model could do it?

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Post by orangecat »

ajeskey wrote: post #33
orangecat wrote: post #16

I wanted to see how Fable could do at getting Linux running natively on my M4 Mac mini. Turns out pretty well: it patched the Asahi installer and m1n1 bootloader to support M4, and created a workflow where it could build, push, and debug kernels with no interaction on my part after the initial setup. It's now happily running headless with ssh access, and hopefully will have video soon after a USB DisplayLink adapter…

Is the networking a USB gadget, or were you able to get around the PCIe + DART crux?

USB2 only, which still makes for a surprisingly useful system with DisplayLink and wifi adapters. Supporting the rest of the hardware looks like it will require watching macOS under the hypervisor, which Opus doesn't think it can do and Fable isn't allowed to think about.

Re: Ask HN: What was the last task where only a frontier model could do it?

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Post by ajeskey »

orangecat wrote: post #35
ajeskey wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is the networking a USB gadget, or were you able to get around the PCIe + DART crux?

USB2 only, which still makes for a surprisingly useful system with DisplayLink and wifi adapters. Supporting the rest of the hardware looks like it will require watching macOS under the hypervisor, which Opus doesn't think it can do and Fable isn't allowed to think about.

“USB2 only” still doesn’t narrow what I was asking about. Do you mean the existing m1n1 DWC3 device-mode/CDC-ACM proxy, or Linux actually running xHCI in host mode and enumerating a USB Wi-Fi dongle?

Asking/Curious because I have been working on something for a few months, building an OS that is tuned for inference on Mac hardware. The amount of tooling I have had to create to get things like native networking, working; let's just say it would be a heck of an ego hit if Fabel "just got it working" ha!

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