| 1 Aug 2025 |
 K900 | Fine as in Haswell | 12:22:41 |
 emily | https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005009021139201.html well this is cheap and cute | 12:22:51 |
| K900 | That's not terrible but I wouldn't call it "fine" | 12:22:53 |
| K900 | It is | 12:22:56 |
 dramforever | it's way better than anything you can get for riscv 😂 | 12:23:18 |
| emily | well you can buy a lot of useful AArch64 boards that would look bad on these graphs I think | 12:23:30 |
| dramforever | you wouldn't buy this to replace your daily driver | 12:24:37 |
| emily | well you could | 12:25:08 |
| emily | unlike with RISC-V | 12:25:10 |
| dramforever | but ... well they're not exactly looking to sell much to this market anyway, you already know tha | 12:25:23 |
| emily | or with AArch64 unless you are very patient or have a lot of money but I'm less confident there since I don't actually know what mid-range AArch64 perf is like | 12:25:28 |
| emily | yes I was just curious | 12:25:36 |
| emily | I couldn't tell if people were just buying/working on them for funsies or if there was just a lot of money getting thrown at FOSS people for it | 12:25:52 |
| dramforever | the main customer base is govt and stuff where they are actually interested in getting processors that US sanctions cannot cut off | 12:26:19 |
| dramforever | oh, yes, the will not design anything in nodes china can't produce | 12:26:38 |
| dramforever | so no 7nm yet | 12:26:51 |
| dramforever | In reply to @emilazy:matrix.org
I couldn't tell if people were just buying/working on them for funsies or if there was just a lot of money getting thrown at FOSS people for it iiuc, both | 12:27:54 |
| dramforever | like obviously i'm doing what i'm doing for a very weird definition of "fun" | 12:28:13 |
| dramforever | these people are doing it for funsies or at least mostly funsies https://github.com/loongson-community | 12:28:57 |
| emily | Cored By LOONGSON | 12:29:11 |
| dramforever | yes | 12:29:30 |
| emily | like an apple | 12:29:33 |
| dramforever | they need someone to tell them what "core" (verb) means | 12:29:46 |
| dramforever | exactly | 12:29:53 |
| dramforever | their chips all say this | 12:29:55 |
| dramforever | it is very annoying | 12:30:03 |
| emily | I think it's funny | 12:30:30 |
| emily | oh while we're being wildly offtopic and I have you talking about MIPS | 12:30:43 |
| emily | echo ' vmlinux.ecoff - ECOFF boot image'
echo ' vmlinux.bin - Raw binary boot image'
echo ' vmlinux.srec - SREC boot image'
echo ' vmlinux.32 - 64-bit boot image wrapped in 32bits (IP22/IP32)'
echo ' vmlinuz - Compressed boot(zboot) image'
echo ' vmlinuz.ecoff - ECOFF zboot image'
echo ' vmlinuz.bin - Raw binary zboot image'
echo ' vmlinuz.srec - SREC zboot image'
| 12:30:53 |
| emily | can you explain to me which vmlinux image actually matters for MIPS | 12:30:59 |
