(Part 1 at https://threedots.ovh/blog/2021/01/thoughts-on-tachyum/, let’s assume that most Tachyum claims are true) Tachyum is a company saying that their VLIW processor will change computing, being… Read More »Thoughts on Tachyum (part 2)
9 days ago, I pushed to https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc/pull/151 a more complete mrustc on macOS branch including Apple Silicon support, to have an alternative Rust compiler available… Read More »mrustc on macOS
Visual Studio today (the IDE) is still a 32-bit x86 application. How well does it run on a Windows on Arm machine? Disclaimer: This workflow… Read More »Visual Studio on an Arm Windows machine
I ordered an iPad Air (again) on Sunday and picked it up on Monday. So far, it’s quite good, with the Apple Pencil being the… Read More »Not-an-iPad-review
I’ve been reading this blog post. (titled “Heads up: Microsoft repo secretly installed on all Raspberry Pi’s Linux OS”) The headline by itself already sets… Read More »Open source rhetoric? or FUD?
On a side note, a jailbroken iOS device has security protections equivalent to a macOS system with SIP off and AMFI off. That’s not a… Read More »Things to not do on Apple OSes: disabling AMFI
(NVIDIA Xavier Series SoC Technical Reference Manual 1.4p, page 576) One of the few general purpose processors in the wild with sequential consistency is the… Read More »Arm CPUs with sequential consistency
Yet another one… and this time in buildable form on Apple M1 devices. (tarball at https://opensource.apple.com/tarballs/xnu/xnu-7195.81.3.tar.gz) What are the Apple CPU extensions not supported though… Read More »Notes on the new XNU source release
A new XNU release appeared at: https://opensource.apple.com/tarballs/xnu/xnu-7195.60.75.tar.gz. What’s not there: Tunables for Apple Firestorm/Icestorm. Hypervisor support for Apple Silicon-based Macs doesn’t seem to be there… Read More »New XNU source release
The first RFC got submitted to upstream to solicit comments about it. It’s quite minimal, only including the interrupt controller and secondary CPU startup drivers,… Read More »Linux on Apple Silicon Macs: first RFC submission