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„Ist Segeln in der Ostsee noch sicher?: Zwei Deutsche offenbar von russischem U-Boot bedrängt
Ende Juni wurden zwei deutsche Segler vor Kaliningrad von einem U-Boot bedrängt, Polarforscher Arved Fuchs berichtet über GPS-Störungen der Russen. Die Marine sieht die Lage in der Ostsee wie im Kalten Krieg.“

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Der Tagesspiegel · Zwei Deutsche von offenbar russischem U-Boot bedrängt: Ist Segeln in der Ostsee noch sicher?By Karolina Meyer-Schilf

Celebrating my success in battle against the board from hell, or rather the terrible imx-boot, still used by #NXP instead of the fine and working binman. #uboot #uboot #yocto

This is a classic trance track from 2005 by Belgian producer Jonas Steur. Enjoy!

open.spotify.com/track/14dGDZN

SpotifySilent Waves [ASOT 198] - Original MixJonas Steur · A State Of Trance Episode 198 · Song · 2005

So I am trying to boot #FreeBSD on my #LibreComputerAlta featuring an #A311D. I have tried boot only aarch64 image. The SoC supports upstream #uboot. FreeBSD bootloader comes up, some text are corrupted and USB keyboard doesn't work. Anyway it boots into the installer, tries loading kernel then it prints error that these files are not there:

/etc/hostid
/boot/entropy

I'm guessing that the bootloader is supposed to populate these files. Anyway, if you have hints, let me know. I will study about FreeBSD boot process myself after lunch.

PS: I don't want to use FreeBSD on my #SBC. I want to use the GPU and the #NPU and I'm, pretty sure FreeBSD hasn't got support for those. But I want to collect some data and make it public in the case anyone was interested.

PS2: At some point I might be interested in adding driver support to FreeBSD myself, if I could do it with #Rust. The plan would be for the next 1-2 years, God willing.

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@wolf480pl @cas I just assume they don't want to have to deal with a gazillion of undocumented SBCs that may only get 1 person to once push code that gets accepted, but then "orphaned" and break over time as they may not be willing to build & test every new kernel before release just to enshure it ain't broken!

It's absolute chaos and one of the reasons I didn't even try to build @OS1337 for the #Pi0W as of today...

Infosec.SpaceKevin Karhan :verified: (@kkarhan@infosec.space)@cas@treehouse.systems @wolf480pl@mstdn.io granted, the distain is mutual, given almost all #SBC & #SoC vendors refuse to do basic #documentation on how their shit works and barely release some dodgy images with custom kernel modules. - @olimex@mastodon.social and #RaspberryPi being an exception of the norm, but #Rockchip, #Allwinner and other SOCs are a real pain in the ass to support unless they are #ARMv8 with #UEFI to boot. #Apple's Hardware does have @AsahiLinux@treehouse.systems as project to care for *and* is popular enough to be *worth the hassle* for them, as it brings decent performance and battery runtime to the table...