2010

Sun, Oct 10

<20:00 EEST> This week, I have upgraded my little server to a smaller and more powerful version. Patching the kernel after Japanese instructions was interesting, but a general Linux experience goes a long way, with some patience for trial and error. I'm getting more and more impressed with these tiny, heatsink-less ARM processors, as this one is nearing the compile speed of my laptop in some cases.

I have also struggled with a long-standing yaboot issue. Since the Gentoo release 1.3.14-r1, no version of yaboot has managed to boot properly, instead throwing a decrementer exception in Open Firmware. I keep falling back to a binary package of 1.3.14, because even recompiling that old version fails similarly. Even with the very conservative CFLAGS of "-O2 -pipe" and without distcc or ccache.