@asie this is also my impression as someone who implemented a USB stack for Tegra X1 BPMP

All my homies HATE Broadcom

@iximeow I'm off-and-on working on something for this. https://github.com/misson20000/charm. Temper expectations, I put maybe a dozen hours a month into this, but hopefully in a few years it'll be useful. I've never been terribly excited to learn a new templating language, so I figured instead I'd focus on making the user experience of manually sketching structure into existing data as good as I can. Later on I can add a python api to understand templates and use those to create structure.

@foone I feel like key duplication machines (the kind you'd see in grocery stores or home depot) have something like this. I don't remember whether they turn or not though. Probably not.

devicetree is just CSS for hardware

@mia see: any of Posy's videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkPSDOjhxwM

:boost_ok: does anyone have a broken Nintendo DSi or DSi XL lying around? (preferably in Europe for shipping reasons)

I need a few more consoles to do the following:

* sand/polish down each layer of the PCB and image them
* document all the testpoints on the DSi XL PCB (which are, unlike the regular DSi's, not properly labeled)
* document the last few remaining unknown pins of the CPU-TWL SoC

this is of course destructive, so that's why I don't want to do this with still-working consoles

@tommythorn When you say might not have scaled so well, what do you mean? To be clear on tone here, I'm a huge fan of the SW JIT and in-order VLIW idea and would love to hear your thoughts on why it might not pan out today.

@tommythorn Do you have somewhere I can read about the refinement that got shipped? I've never heard about this before!

@moonchild ask transmeta how that one went for them :(

forgot that you can buy normal things on ebay too and was looking forward to saving on some application specific integrated circuits 😔​

If you aren't aware, I collect programmable logic devices and their toolchains. If you are ever looking for an old version of MAX+PLUS II or similar, feel free to ask. If you have old dev boards, I'll gladly give them a home.

I'm working towards a living museum of sorts with functional development workstations (on computers of the time) for some of the earlier device families. My current project is a workstation for Xilinx XC4000 series using a development board called Borg designed by University of California, Santa Cruz and Xilinx. After that is a Xilinx Spartan2 workstation.

Still looking for the perfect Valentine's Day gift? Have you considered a four-channel 200 MHz oscilloscope with virtual phosphor display?