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   nina (q66@blahaj.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 00:57:13 JST nina

   current progress: i have a kernel and like over half of base-full so in a few packages i'll be able to construct and maybe boot an iso

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     nina (q66@blahaj.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 00:57:08 JST nina

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     here

     clang-compiled (incl llvm_ias and whatnot) linux/musl, running on 32-bit ppc for the first time ever

     booting this was very funny because the usb stick does not appear in the OF device tree when put in the laptop's usb port, but does appear if you plug it into an old ibm keyboard hub that is plugged into the laptop usb port

     but if you do that, it does not appear in linux and root does not get mounted, so you have to boot and quickly enough unplug the stick and put it in the normal port

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     nina (q66@blahaj.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 00:57:09 JST nina

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     :)

     now to get this on physical hardware

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     nina (q66@blahaj.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 00:57:10 JST nina

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     it's live!

     but some erofs feature or something seems unsupported so it did not actually mount the rootfs

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     nina (q66@blahaj.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 00:57:11 JST nina

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     well

     looks like crash dumps are not supported with 32-bit ppc kernels/OF?

     so another kernel rebuild it is

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     nina (q66@blahaj.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 00:57:12 JST nina

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     👀

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 01:09:38 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @q66 Makes me wonder if it could work on my PowerMac G3.6, would be neat.
     (And I have few old period-correct hubs and various old usb sticks)
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     nina (q66@blahaj.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 01:21:15 JST nina

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     • ari :prideified:

     @ar i mean sure, but the re-plug is easy enough (you just have to do it while it's still waiting for rootfs...)

     another very funny thing was getting into the openfirmware console here, because the R and F keys do not work, and the external keyboard i had did not have the super key, and you need super+alt+o+f, so you press the super/command key on the laptop keyboard and the other 3 keys on the external one

     if it works it works lol

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     ari :prideified: (ar@is-a.cat)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 01:21:16 JST ari :prideified:

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     @q66 would having two usb sticks, one plugged into the keyboard, and the other into the laptop's usb port, help?

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     nina (q66@blahaj.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 01:35:53 JST nina

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     now bootstrapping rust to unblock like half of the repo

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     nina (q66@blahaj.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 03:23:00 JST nina

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     well i have successfully crosscompiled rustc and cargo for bootstrap tarballs and now doing the native rebuilds, so far working okay

     that means the chances of this succeeding and not crashing somewhere along the way are maybe 60%

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     nina (q66@blahaj.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 03:23:01 JST nina

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     your intermediate build artifacts error with a library not being found for inexplicable reasons?

     surely this will do

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     nina (q66@blahaj.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 19:02:47 JST nina

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     currently at 3300 packages and building webkit, in theory if there was a public repo you could now run x11/wayland with a few wms/compositors

     why am i such a mess :|

     casually bringing up a distro and a few thousand packages on a new architecture from scratch over a weekend? sure, no problem

     going to a place and being able to talk to someone without becoming a bundle of anxiety? nope lol too bad

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     nina (q66@blahaj.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 19:02:48 JST nina

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     well those went ok

     so far packages built: 2050