| 1 Aug 2025 |
 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 |
| 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 |
