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drewdevault

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I write code

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Any good assemblers and linkers which are broadly GNU compatible but written in C and simpler than binutils?

drewdevault,
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@grimmy yeah I think this may be it

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Wow so today I learned that egregious labor violations are utterly widespread throughout the yoga industry

A friend was describing how they "volunteer" at their local yoga studio in exchange for free classes by working 4 hour shifts at the cash register... of a for profit company... where they report to a manager... and whose owner takes regular expensive vacations and lives in a beautiful, spacious home...

Upon further research I found out that this happens at MOST OF THEM

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The "manager" as far as I can tell is the only paid employee aside from the owners, the instructors are contractors whose own labor conditions are... not good

drewdevault,
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@hatpinhacker yeah, that's not legal in most countries

drewdevault,
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@hatpinhacker report it to the local labor authority and they can probably collect back pay

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I needed a break from Real Work, so I'm speedrunning writing a Unix-ish operating system

Day 3

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@mxk I'm using a fork of musl libc heavily patched to support bunnix

drewdevault,
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Today:

/dev/cons
/dev/kbd

drewdevault,
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Here's the whole PS/2 keyboard driver, 42 lines of code: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/bunnix/tree/master/item/sys/arch/dev/+x86_64/ps2kbd.ha

(plus the generic keyboard driver support code): https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/bunnix/tree/master/item/sys/dev/chr/kbd.ha

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signals /o\

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Unix speedrun @ day 22

Video demonstrating some basic features of Bunnix, including a shell and a number of utilities

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Having some more fun with Bunnix

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@hexaheximal it runs on aarch64 and riscv64 as well, though Bunnix has to be ported to each as it's inherently arch-specific

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A wild iso appears

https://files.catbox.moe/foyxm6.iso

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drewdevault,
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(no, it does not work correctly)

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Summarizing day 22:

I fixed signals and the shell works great. So I went on a porting spree. I ported a further 15 core utilities from sbase, which includes ed(1), so now there is a text editor for Bunnix.

The real news, however, is that I somehow managed to port binutils, and you can assemble and link assembly programs on Bunnix now. I also got gcc to compile for Bunnix, but it has some bizzare issues I don't care to debug right now -- I didn't expect to get even that far.

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I think the definition of "done" for Bunnix is:

  • Has a reasonably comprehensive set of shell utilities
  • Has a working C toolchain
  • Has a working Hare toolchain
  • Can play doom

At least for the "speedrun" purposes, I might work on it more afterwards off and on

drewdevault,
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drewdevault,
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Finally implemented uname

Today I am trying to flesh out the libc enough to finish porting sbase

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@whynothugo I'll write a blog post about the process when I'm done

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