Michael
In March, I wrote about my initial contact with the StarFive VisionFive 2 board. Since then, StarFive released a couple of new releases of their Debian-based operating system. However, these releases are still based on a Debian unstable snapshot from 2022 and a Linux 5.15.0 kernel that contains...
adam
I created a website for my forthcoming book: Steadfast Self-Hosting: Rapid-Rise Personal Cloud This book will free your data and empower your users. Send me a note at info@(that same domain name) if you want me to let you know when it is available.
Michael
Recently I had a bad memory module in my main storage system which is also the backup target of many of my systems. To be on the safe side, I validated all backed up files against their origin via checksums. Interestingly, multiple systems showed differing checksums for all DejaVu font files, i.e....
Michael
With RISC-V getting more and more attention, I was curious and got myself a StarFive VisionFive 2, a single board computer equipped with a SiFive JH7110 SoC which implements the RV64GC ISA. While the performance is not on par with ARM SBCs yet, the overall experience has been quite good so far. In...
Michael
Recently I grabbed my trusted old Avnet / Digilent ZedBoard to test how well the current Xilinx tools work with this now a decade old platform. However, I was facing a weird issue: The serial output by the Zynq PS was only received via USB on my computer when I was sending characters via UART from...