Monthly Archives: July 2022
Daily blog july 14 by Catcream
Today I have worked on “forgotten” patches and also made some new ones, I’ve also done some testing on Plasma desktop packages and a little cross compiling with distcc.
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Daily blog july 13 by Catcream
Today I’ve set up my router to use Gentoo musl, it is an Espressobin v7 (aarch64). I thought I’d do it before I started working but it took a looot longer than expected due to some issues, like macvlan.ko causing … Continue reading
Posted in musl KDE, Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Daily blog july 12 by Catcream
This day has been mostly dedicated to reinstalling my musl development desktop. Throughout this project I’ve been putting various small patches into /etc/portage/patches, as well as “make install:ing” some things and forgetting about them.
Posted in musl KDE
Leave a comment
Week 4 Report for Refining ROCm Packages in Gentoo
The forth week working on packaging ROCm is quite smooth. There are some bug fixes, and also major improvements on rocm.eclass. Bug fixes cover rocBLAS and rocFFT. For rocBLAS, I backported a patch to sci-libs/rocBLAS-5.0.2-r1 and dev-util/Tensile-r1, to pass `-j … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Week 3 Report for Refining ROCm Packages in Gentoo
This week I’m quite busy on other work (school related, I’m at the end of the semester and the official summer vacation starts next week), so there is not much progress on finishing the plan mentioned in week 2’s report. … Continue reading
Posted in ROCm Packages
Leave a comment
Week 2 Report for Refining ROCm Packages in Gentoo
The second week of refining ROCm ebuilds is quite busy. I deployed docker to perform clean build which find two hidden bugs in hip, and there is also progress on completing rocm-5.1.3 against vanilla llvm/clang. After learning a lesson at … Continue reading
Posted in ROCm Packages
Leave a comment
Week 1 Report for Refining ROCm Packages in Gentoo
This is my first week of GSoC at Gentoo, and I found it unexpectedly exciting. The center of first week is around making dev-util/hip rely on vanilla clang. In https://github.com/littlewu2508/gentoo/tree/blender-rocm, I bumped rocm-device-libs, rocm-comgr, hip to 5.1.3 and use vanilla … Continue reading
Posted in ROCm Packages
Leave a comment
Daily blog july 11 by Catcream
As I used the #gentoo-soc-musl channel as a mini-blog Blueknight suggested to me that I’d do small daily blog posts instead. Today I’ve worked on a lot of different and seemingly unrelated stuff. To start with I fixed plocate to … Continue reading
Posted in musl KDE
Leave a comment
Week 4 Report for RISC-V Support for Gentoo Prefix
Hello everyone, So the fourth week of Google Summer of Code has come to an end and here is my weekly report for the same. This week we got a working prefix with Stage 3 compiling till the end. Profile … Continue reading
Posted in RISC-V Prefix
Leave a comment
OpenRC and the hidden segfault
OpenRC and the hidden segfault Hi! This time we will take a look at a rabbit hole involving debugging segmentation faults caused at the init(8) boot stage. I first noticed something was wrong when seeing this in my boot messages: … Continue reading
Posted in musl KDE
Leave a comment