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   minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Apr-2025 18:37:32 JST minute

   i might have NIH tendencies in software partly because when writing software the speed of making progress and getting results and the wealth of resources can be addictingly pleasant versus with badly documented hardware and linux kernel compile-reboot-sigh loops it's sometimes just toiling for hours and days on a single problem like "the whole system just locks up" or "the display just stays off"

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     Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Apr-2025 18:37:31 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

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     @mntmn Reminds me of SPARC .. and Open Firmware. I often just shove a Forth when I need this type of stuff. GDB should work though, what is broken?

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     minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Apr-2025 18:37:32 JST minute

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     otoh it would be nice if someone made a comfy in kernel serial REPL for the "bringup sketching" or debugging phase of development, where you can interactively run and modify kernel driver functions in scripts etc, with integrated machine monitor that also has all clocks, regulators etc. a bit like remote gdb but better (iirc remote kernel gdb is somewhat broken on arm64)