| 24 Jan 2022 |
 Zhaofeng Li | I think you may want to look into container orchestrators like Kubernetes and Nomad | 19:51:56 |
 Corbin | Oh, of course; k8s is my standard platform for building stuff, and lately I'm trying out k3s. I'm curious about what options we have for Beowulfing it up instead. | 19:59:47 |
| Zhaofeng Li | There is no "instead" - You can use k8s to schedule work on your beowulf cluster. If you are specifically looking for something more "sciency" there is slurm and singularity but my limited experience isn't positive. | 20:05:06 |
| Zhaofeng Li | Anyways, I don't think this is on-topic for this room. | 20:05:13 |
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| 21 Feb 2022 |
| Zhaofeng Li | Anyone running powerpc 32-bit? What's the status of support in nixpkgs, and do you have any downstream patches? | 21:16:58 |
 Ryan Burns | current support level is cross compilation only, but even less so than 64 bit because afaik no one has run it natively | 22:03:03 |
| Ryan Burns | ive been able to run nix built 32 bit executables on same-endian 64 bit machines but thats about as far as ive gone | 22:03:33 |
| 22 Feb 2022 |
 Linux Hackerman | Hack of the night: https://github.com/lheckemann/uap-nix. Not particularly exotic, in the sense that everybody has MIPS hardware at home. But I bet not much of it is running nix-built firmware (unless you're telent I guess) :D | 00:01:11 |
 ius | In reply to @zhaofeng:zhaofeng.li
Anyone running powerpc 32-bit? What's the status of support in nixpkgs, and do you have any downstream patches? I was able to build/boot a tiny runit based closure a couple of months ago (i.e. just the bare minimum). I then accidentally plugged a 12 V adapter in the (unmarked) 5 V power jack of my board. | 06:51:30 |
| Zhaofeng Li | RIP, what kind of machine is/was that? | 06:52:25 |
| Ryan Burns | a 5V powerpc SOIC sounds tantalizing | 06:53:06 |
| Zhaofeng Li | Mine is a white-box switch (edge-core 5700-96x) | 06:53:28 |
| ius | It was a 2010'ish commercial board once used for IoT purposes (smart metering for my OEM'd board): http://www.3lectrik.com/greenwave/solutions/connected-lighting-solution/ | 06:56:30 |
| ius | Greenwave Reality Gateway - PPC405EX + 64MB ram | 06:57:04 |
| ius | Was surprised to discover the power people got the device tree thing sorted out before ARM, so PPC4XX 'just works' on a modern kernel even though it shipped with an ancient one. | 07:00:05 |
| Zhaofeng Li | Yeah, the other ppc device I have is an iBook G3 which still has a 3-year-old Gentoo install I haven't touched in a while, and that's my experience as well (OpenFirmware) | 07:02:08 |
| Zhaofeng Li | * Yeah, the other ppc device I have is an iBook G4 which still has a 3-year-old Gentoo install I haven't touched in a while, and that's my experience as well (OpenFirmware)
(edit: actually G4/A1054 - wow so long has passed) | 07:04:23 |
 Jamie | i’ve been working on pentesting a firewall device at work, used a toolchain from nixpkgs to cross-compile some ppd32 tools, worked fine | 07:04:49 |
| ius | I had been eyeing other hardware as a replacement, but nothing that can be had that satisfies at least 2 out of {dirt cheap, decent interfaces, okay'ish clocks} | 07:04:55 |
| Jamie | *ppc32 | 07:04:59 |
 Alyssa Ross | oh, I've just remembered I've built and run programs for powerpc 32-bit NetBSD with Nix | 11:26:09 |
