On recent driver revisions for Linux x86_64 (this does not apply to AArch64 NVIDIA drivers at this time), NVIDIA shipped firmware for a new coprocessor,… Read More »NVIDIA GSP Firmware

Microsoft has an edge SQL Server product that is also available on 64-bit Arm in addition of x86 processors, offering core functionality. However, forget about… Read More »SQL Server on Arm

(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