| 1 Aug 2025 |
 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 |
| dramforever | maybe this is why they don't sell much internationally | 12:30:59 |
| dramforever | if anyone has actual nix rust questions please do interrupt | 12:31:20 |
| emily | is it the ELF or is it ECOFF or raw bin or what the hell do people actually consume | 12:31:22 |
| dramforever | i have no fucking idea | 12:31:58 |
| emily | (this is relevant for my kernel PR) | 12:32:02 |
| emily | well what did you boot on that lemote :P | 12:32:08 |
| dramforever | i've been using vmlinuz | 12:32:17 |
| emily | ok so self-decompressing ELF | 12:32:26 |
| dramforever | but it's also booting from pmon | 12:32:26 |
| dramforever | which may or may not be normal for mips | 12:32:34 |
| emily | yeah | 12:32:35 |
| emily | isn't PMON what people use though | 12:32:38 |
| emily | I guess maybe not for the MIPS machines that ran NT 4.0 or whatever | 12:32:46 |
| emily | but are there even MIPS machines used by anyone in the galaxy that are not Lemote at this point | 12:33:00 |
| dramforever | idk, what do you use on mips routers? | 12:33:06 |
| emily | umm good question | 12:33:13 |
