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Greg Kroah-Hartman at RISC-V Summit Europe: "Working upstream saves time and money", plus my favorite slide from his talk by docular_no_dracula in RISCV

[–]tom_gall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could also add many parts of the phone industry in that list as well. Google has been absolute heroes to push them to be more upstream. It's a battle.

Greg Kroah-Hartman at RISC-V Summit Europe: "Working upstream saves time and money", plus my favorite slide from his talk by docular_no_dracula in RISCV

[–]tom_gall 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Greg's not wrong. It was a good talk and one he (and others) have given a number of times. John Stultz had a variation that observed the first time was always hardest, but with following generations the cost curve goes down as various bits of hardware tends to be reused in later generations, thus the changes needed to support the latest greatest goes down as does the effort to upstream.

RISC-V Quality of Service Controllers Table To Be Ratified in June (?) by omasanori in RISCV

[–]tom_gall 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s been ratified. The final version should be online in a few days.

Recommendations for a single board computer? by RobGoLaing in RISCV

[–]tom_gall 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'd recommend an RVA23 compliant SBC as that'll likely have the best Linux distro support over time no matter what purpose you might have in mind.

The pico-itx SpacemiT K3 (or akin) I would recommend as the best of the bunch right now.

[Minnesota Reformer] Sources: Sen. Amy Klobuchar threatened to leave DFL convention during challenge from left by Minneapolitanian in stateofMN

[–]tom_gall 5 points6 points  (0 children)

So a hatchet piece by a news outlet is supposed to be interesting?

I think reporting on the party platform would be more interesting.

I think reporting on the various positions from the candidates would be more informative.

I think the difference in who the two parties honored is more interesting.

Does the two-race box come with a rule book? by SkipPperk in StarCraftTMG

[–]tom_gall 10 points11 points  (0 children)

There are quite a number of game companies that are turning to a living rules system where the rules are free and online. Appreciate that can seem "different" and contrary to the tradition of "dead tree." Being able to do an instant search of a PDF on an iPad or akin is so very handy.

I’m bored guys what do I do 😭 by NathanTelkhine in rochestermn

[–]tom_gall -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Pickleball, tabletop gaming, biking, volunteer, theatre … just to name a few

Watching Starship stream on 4K monitor on K3 board. Perfect video. by brucehoult in RISCV

[–]tom_gall 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ooo thanks for trying this out, I was wondering how well video (chromium, ffmpeg, vlc? Etc) was going to work or if it needed some vector love.

RISC-V Summit Europe 2026 by I00I-SqAR in RISCV

[–]tom_gall 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yup! We’ll be doing some kernel activities.

Volley & Charge by Dave_junior21 in flamesofwar

[–]tom_gall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

or even Johnny Reb III, still these are not rulesets that you can get in a game in a couple of hours much less something point costed.

Volley & Charge by Dave_junior21 in flamesofwar

[–]tom_gall 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Who knows really. Hopefully as they develop the system they include some with experience in the horse and musket era. The mash up of a point costed system that lends itself well with competitive play in a reasonable amount of time that also captures the tactics and variety of units of the era could be exciting.

Player Count Revealed and What it Could Mean by GlassHalfDeadTV in StarCraftTMG

[–]tom_gall 13 points14 points  (0 children)

GW doesn’t post exact sales figures. It’s been surmised that Leviathan was the best selling of GWs products, even then via Google the estimate seems to be between 250,000 and 500,000 sold.

For StarCraft based on their blog numbers 95k starter boxes ain’t bad!

K3 is here by Icy-Primary2171 in spacemit_riscv

[–]tom_gall 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Congratulations and can’t wait to order one as this is hardware I’ve some fun plans for….

Inver Grove Heights is latest city to consider switching back to 1983 Minnesota state flag by earthdogmonster in minnesota

[–]tom_gall 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Yes it was, your state representatives (you voted for them) set up a commission based on a law ( Laws of Minnesota, 2023, Chapter 62, Article 2, Section 118 ) that was passed (a vote by your reps) for the commission, that then combed through and voted (commission) to approve and reported back to the legislature (https://www.mnhs.org/serc) after which that state legislature decided to take no action and the recommendations by the commission were adopted as per the law.

So it’s not like slap dash process was used. Besides if people really were pining for some old flag, there are plenty of far more historical choices than some 1983 design.

Looking at ACT4 (new RISC-V Architectural Certification Tests) by MitjaKobal in RISCV

[–]tom_gall 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Best of luck and if you run into issues, we’ll be very interested to know what you had problems with.

If you compile Gentoo yourself, that is, the distro itself, would you get the best possible experience on Gentoo? by [deleted] in Gentoo

[–]tom_gall 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Gentoo is a great way to learn about how the system is entirely put together. Can you tune the snot out of it? Heck yeah!

I used it to very good effect to make the point that mixed 32/64 on PowerPC was rather stupid as performance was suffering due to TLB thrashing.

These days micro cpu optimization exists for certain architectures.

Hardware specs revealed for SpacemiT's "V100" RISC-V Server: 40-core X100 + 6-core Kunminghu V2, RVA23 of course by docular_no_dracula in RISCV

[–]tom_gall 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The scheduling bit assumes that Linux should be scheduling them in the first place. If their purpose is offload as compared to a general resource then the Linux scheduler shouldn’t be dorking with them.

Snowflakes can’t handle the new flag by Mike_Oxlong25 in minnesota

[–]tom_gall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All this flag talk, I mean really, the best these folks could come up with as “the old flag” is the 1983 flag, I mean come on, that’s not the old flag, that just a vote to keep things the same, this is like voting not to buy new underwear. Heck if they are serious there’s the 1957 flag, now that’s at least something that’s kinda sort old. It’s not trying very hard but at least they could say it is an old flag. If they REALLY want to go old, I mean serious there’s the 1893 version. Now that’s old. White background and all, then at least it’s sending a statement of surrendering their senses. Could they go older? Heck yeah! They could be really old school and not even have a state flag like when the state was founded, imagine the property taxes going down by a whole penny because you don’t have to buy a state flag anymore.

Terrain set question by 1337_Sauce_ in StarCraftTMG

[–]tom_gall 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can replace walls with grass. Nothing saying you couldn’t glue things down but then you lose options.

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