Hi :3 I'm a systems programming witch, MLP fangirl and enjoy listening to 에스파 and 뉴진스.

POWER to the people! ARM is also fine.

I curse at unikernels and make phones boot Linux with UEFI.

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@aelin@donotsta.re avatar aelin , to random

After days debugging the stupidest mistake ever, we finally have penguins on sm7450 (fillmore) :akko_smile2:

Xiaomi 13 Lite booting mainline Linux, photo shows the framebuffer with a kernel and initramfs boot log and 8 penguins at the top
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EDIT: fix is now pushed, will be safe to update soon I hope :)

edge seemingly has an issue with mkinitfs that breaks booting, warning against upgrading for now for anyone else daily driving.

aelin ,
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@allpurposemat ouch, do you have any further information?

@aelin@donotsta.re avatar aelin , to random

Bruxelles-Midi has to be THE most confusing train station there is: Platforms 3 and 4 are hidden away, we managed to find that, got upstairs, found ourselves at platform 4 next to a TGV, with no way to cross to platform 3 (which is just the other side!). Turns out the Eurostar to London was going to arrive in 10 minutes, so they locked down that part due to the necessary border controls. With no explanation anywhere to find.

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Hackathon jank is the best jank ^~^

postmarketOS phone harness powering a SBC through very thin wires with 12V and a mess of other cables and hardware around
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@aelin@donotsta.re avatar aelin , to random

the fun begins :3

neofetch on the Edgerouter Infinity
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aelin OP ,
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Okay, got Alpine booting. I also made the 7 year old Octeon III ethernet driver that was never merged in Linux compile and load, but there's something still slightly wrong there (link never becomes ready). Time to investigate.

taliyah:~# uname -a Linux taliyah 6.19.0-rc5-g78e506b497c7-dirty #7 SMP Mon Jan 19 00:24:17 CET 2026 mips64 Linux taliyah:~# cat /etc/os-release NAME="Alpine Linux" ID=alpine VERSION_ID=3.23.0_alpha20250612 PRETTY_NAME="Alpine Linux edge" HOME_URL="https://alpinelinux.org/" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues" taliyah:~# head -n 5 /proc/cpuinfo system type : UBNT_E1000 (CN7360p1.2-1800-AAP) machine : Unknown processor : 0 cpu model : Cavium Octeon III V0.2 FPU V0.0 BogoMIPS : 3600.00
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    • aelin OP ,
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    It seems I'm missing a firmware file that is now also a dead link. https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ welp

    aelin OP ,
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    Found that file in some OpenBSD tarballs, lmao. It seems the missing piece is a driver for the CS4223 PHY, will probably look into that tomorrow. It can't be that hard, there's a driver in U-Boot

    @aelin@donotsta.re avatar aelin , to random

    Lady at Cologne Hbf just told me that my outfit rocks, thanks I guess? I'm not used to compliments :akko_wtf:

    aelin OP ,
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    I hope I'll get some sleep

    aelin OP ,
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    Trip was worth it already

    aelin OP ,
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    Seat reservations on ICE 554 are completely scuffed and I had to move twice, but finally have a seat now and we're on the way to Hanover. The gentleman next to me is also traveling to Aachen with the same connection in Cologne, will be fun to see if we make it

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    Train tickets for FOSDEM: booked :blobcathappy:

    aelin OP ,
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    I will probably have a lot of time to kill on the 30th, so if anyone wants to go for lunch together and/or hang out, let me know :)