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Re: The Interim Operating System

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Post by sternenseemann » Wed, Sep 16, 2015, 12:11 PM UTC

Do you already support the Raspberry's GPIOs or do you plan to do so?

Re: The Interim Operating System

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Post by mntmn » Wed, Sep 16, 2015, 12:44 PM UTC

sternenseemann wrote: post #21

Do you already support the Raspberry's GPIOs or do you plan to do so?

Support is planned!

Re: The Interim Operating System

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Post by hermanhermitage » Wed, Sep 16, 2015, 2:33 PM UTC

mntmn wrote: post #15

sklogic wrote: post #12

Nitpicking: it's a VPU which runs the bootstrap blob, not the QPU (the latter is well documented and fairly open, unlike the former).

Thanks for that correction, will look into it and correct.

I think there is enough info to do a jit_vpu_raw.c, which could be a fun project!

Re: The Interim Operating System

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Post by sklogic » Wed, Sep 16, 2015, 2:35 PM UTC

mntmn wrote: post #15

sklogic wrote: post #12

Nitpicking: it's a VPU which runs the bootstrap blob, not the QPU (the latter is well documented and fairly open, unlike the former).

Thanks for that correction, will look into it and correct.

Btw., VPU had been reverse-engineered to a degree, should be sort of possible to roll out your own bootstrap now: https://github.com/hermanhermitage/videocoreiv

Re: The Interim Operating System

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Post by qnaal » Wed, Sep 16, 2015, 6:31 PM UTC

fengor wrote: post #10

qnaal wrote: post #9

why do you have more pictures of your weird keyboard than screenshots from the device? who photographs lcds honestly

because the device is a RaspberryPI built into the keyboard?

'built in' meaning screwed onto a piece of plastic?

wow such hacker

Re: The Interim Operating System

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Post by cbd1984 » Thu, Sep 17, 2015, 1:59 AM UTC

hga wrote: post #3

From the GitHub README: Interim Interim OS is a radical new operating system with a focus on minimalism. It steals conceptually from Lisp machines (language-based kernel) and Plan 9 (everything is a file system). It boots to a JITting Lisp-like REPL and offers the programmer/user the system's resources as filesystems. Interim runs on: Raspberry Pi 2 (Broadcom VideoCore4/ARMv7, Bare Metal) Olimex Olinuxino (Freescale…

> Interim OS is a radical new operating system with a focus on minimalism. It steals conceptually from Lisp machines (language-based kernel)

These two concepts being so close together ("minimalism" and "Lisp") is practically an oxymoron, as far as Common Belief Structures go.

Minimalism is 6502 machine code as written by someone who honestly believes assemblers make code go slower. Don't you know that? /s

Meanwhile, this:

> It boots to a JITting Lisp-like REPL

... is basically Dalvik/Android. It's what we run on our phones, except our phones use Java, not Lisp, because Lisp Is Slow. Dogma. Can't challenge it. People look at you funny.

Re: The Interim Operating System

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Post by sternenseemann » Tue, Sep 22, 2015, 4:54 PM UTC

mntmn wrote: post #22

sternenseemann wrote: post #21

Do you already support the Raspberry's GPIOs or do you plan to do so?

Support is planned!

That is very nice! I guess that will be a filesystem interface?

Re: The Interim Operating System

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Post by lsnra » Sat, Sep 26, 2015, 12:55 PM UTC

There are plans to incorporate a GUI or the keyboard focus is exclusive?