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2024-07-22 15:13:43

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how he's been managed, or how he's done management?

2024-07-09 07:40:54

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any chance you can help me understand how to do that, and preferably (though not manditorialy) not at 4am?

2024-07-09 07:25:05

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does the firmware provide write to a filesystem on nvme?or do we just get block storage? Or... Less?

2024-07-09 05:10:48

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okay, so DT lets us write to the boot options? If so we probably don't need uboot (might be a useful intermediate, might not). We already have the userspace signal, so that will be a useful thing to hook up. (It sounds like you're implying it's pretty straightforward?) The real question is how hard it is to do a one-time boot option and can we have multiple boot options and change the order atomically. The former we can fake with counters and reboot, the latter...

2024-07-09 04:02:00

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this is why full boot stack A/B (i.e. last known good booting as a fallback) is so critical. That allows us to use switchroot() instead of kexec(). But I don't know if we can do that on the apple platforms yet (I haven't looked in to it), so we may be stuck with a legacy loader or possibly a much smaller loader to do kernel selection and nothing else on these platforms. In general we're going to wind up with slightly platform specific implementations, no way around it.

2024-04-12 03:15:54

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2024-04-02 22:54:10

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the tone, dude.

2024-04-02 22:28:14

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oh, guess I misread. Doesn't really change my point; the writing in the post mostly just sounds petty.

2024-04-02 21:10:26

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this mostly just seems petty and confused? Like... there's a whole section ("Story 4") that just seems to assert that advertising is illegal... what?