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    Pyra without decent web browser?

    FYI: Linux dropped 32bit ARM virtualization support with kernel 5.7. Container frameworks tend to have a hard requirement on that.
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    Port Requests

    Check the kernel log for the source of the SIGBUS signal, if this is really a misaligned access it should've caused a data abort exception. If origin was allocated misaligned, shouldn't the exception already happen earlier, like when writing origin.x? I'm pretty sure this shouldn't get...
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    How to Develop/Port for the Pyra as Noob

    Don't forget about E, it's such an improvement over D, the Chinese even made it a spoken language!
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    Finally, a bit more news!

    Have fun discussing the terms of service with the payment processing service handling the bitcoin payment, if they didn't already went bankrupt like most crypto bro companies. Sellers don't care because their 3rd party middle-man takes care about the conversion, they still get their payment in...
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    Finally, a bit more news!

    S3 shuts off the entire CPU, it is completely cut off from power, the ATX power supply itself remains in standby mode and only feeds the RAM through the dedicated 5V standby power cable. The RAM contains a copy of the CPU state that is being restored when powering up the CPU again, which is...
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    Finally, a bit more news!

    Spoiler: That ain't suspend, the CPU is still running and reacting on peripheral interrupts. The ARM architecture does not implement an actual suspend mode. You can't just turn the CPU off, instead you tell it to wait for the next interrupt or other event to happen, which means that the power...
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    Finally, a bit more news!

    The curse of small batch series production. It makes almost every little detail just that more expensive.
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    SD card format woes

    With 4K sectors you can go up to 16 TiB with FAT32. Windows will just refuse to create it, so you need a different formatting tool that doesn't enforce such an artificial limit. The file size limit of 4 GiB is more of an issue. Some cheaper SD cards may have some dirty FAT-specific...
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    Other odd bugs that could use a bounty.

    Plot twist: Neither are any good for decoding, you want a dedicated video decoding hardware module for that. All modern desktop GPUs have one, within an SoC they are often not even considered to be part of the GPU. The UVD module found on Radeon cards has an own microcontroller core dedicated...
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    Other odd bugs that could use a bounty.

    You can use environment variables like LD_LIBRARY_PATH to just override loading the original SDL 1.2 lib with this one when starting a game.
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    Should I have received my final order eMail already?

    Plot twist: Date formatting is actually standardized in a very distinct way. Using the US date representation is absolutely fine - if you're using the correct delimiter. Using '/' for ANY OTHER kind of date formatting is just asking for trouble, yet plenty of people just keep doing it wrong. In...
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    Looking for help: U-Boot RAM Timings

    Except that lower clocks are commonly also used with lower latency settings, which can actually result in overall more aggressive timings that can still cause issues. Actually calculating the absolute time period from both the latency cycles and the frequency makes it more obvious...
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    Hardware Battery temperature readings are odd.

    We're talking about temperature, not capacity. It's most likely a simple thermistor within the battery pack that is directly connected to the 3rd pin of the battery, connection issues with that pin can easily cause pretty wild readings. As the temperature contact is between plus and minus it's...
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    Legend of Pandora - Windows portable edition

    It's actually just a simple userspace convention, the entire concept of a "hidden" file attribute does not exist on Linux. Programs have to decide themselves if they want to treat dot files/folders any different. With regards to the basic CLI tools there are actually fairly large differences in...
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    Devuan Chimaera + error: wl1251: ERROR could not get firmware: -2

    Not sure about Devuan, but AFAIK Debian used to avoid shipping any binary firmwares etc until recently, so you may need to manually add the repository containing the non-free packages and install the necessary firmware package. Error code -2 should be "No such file or directory".
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    Boring to use Linux, When BSD is up on Pyra and Pandora?

    That would imply that a mainstream SBC market worth of that name even existed before the RPi. The SBC market was extremely niche and industry-oriented, most of the stuff on the market wasn't even available publicly. Aside from providing a fairly standard desktop Linux distro, being effectively a...
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    I hate to say this but I want to run Android in Pyra

    As far as Linux is concerned, virtualization on 32-bit ARM is dead. The next time the Pyra gets a more recent kernel it will be gone.
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    Using alternate home directory for non-PND apps

    You may want to read the XDG Base Directory Specification. Some applications may retrieve the home directory directly from passwd, though. That's what GLib's g_get_home_dir() function is doing.
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    Help needed L1/fn shoulder button not working

    If that is even possible. The physically weakest point is the glue keeping the copper layer on the PCB, it is much more likely that a solder pad ripped off completely. If you're lucky you just need to bend the switch back, but if the feedback of the button feels the same that's probably not the...
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    Couldn't wait for my Pyra, so I bought a OMAP5432 devboard

    Eh, it's pretty common on 32-bit MCUs. Even ancient e200 PowerPC MCUs tend to have some fairly sizeable gaps in their modules' memory maps. Sometimes it makes things easier because it makes code more compatible across module revisions with heavy changes, sometimes the developers simply exploit...
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