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Dec 24 09:19:41 <brolin_empey> clort: CatButts: ACK.  At one point I thought you both may be the same person but apparently you are two different persons.
Dec 24 09:23:11 <clort> sicelo that's interesting, i saw some discussion of systemd-inhibit on recent xscreensaver comments
Dec 24 09:23:23 <clort> any of you guys done any fbterm or kexecboot hacking?
Dec 24 09:48:27 <Maxdamantus> I remember using fbterm on my laptop.
Dec 24 09:49:50 <Maxdamantus> and I used kexec for booting an old computer that I was using as a router, but didn't use kexecboot (dunno if it existed)—just made my own static binary that included a minimalic shell with a kexec command.
Dec 24 09:51:46 <Maxdamantus> (the BIOS on that computer wouldn't read 40 GB drives or something, so I made a Linux image small enough to boot from a floppy disk to kexec the actual kernel)
Dec 24 10:01:55 <brolin_empey> Maxdamantus: It still surprises me that an IBM ThinkPad 755CD from 1995 works with a 32-GB drive (CompactFlash SSD) but a genuine, desktop IBM Personal Computer from around 1999 cannot use a drive larger than approximately 8 GB due to a limitation of the motherboard BIOS.
Dec 24 10:03:17 <Maxdamantus> Indeed, it's really just a matter of what assumptions people made when writing the BIOS software.
Dec 24 10:04:38 <Maxdamantus> Same issue with SD card sizes. Some devices might say they only support SD cards up to a certain size, but if you're running something like Linux or Rockbox on them instead of their default software, you won't have those limitations and can use any size.
Dec 24 10:06:23 <Maxdamantus> (since Linux and Rockbox are designed to work with practically arbitrary SD card sizes—their developers probably weren't told that they only had to support X GB, so they didn't write the software with assumptions around X GB)
Dec 24 10:08:49 <Maxdamantus> If your job is to just write software for a particular product, you're more inclined to build in those assumptions, since your boss tells you what it needs to be able to support and then you just make the lowest-effort implementation that supports that.
Dec 25 00:23:58 <l_bratch> Merry Christmas to the Maemo community
Dec 25 00:30:35 <sunshavi> l_bratch: Thanks. and Merry Christmas too
Dec 25 00:33:01 <l_bratch> :D
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