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What’s with looking 24 years ahead? How many computer or control systems are still going to be running in 24 years time?… Surprisingly, more equipment than might be first imagined… Hence what has been termed the “unix millennium ‘bug’” is being seriously considered and fixed now. To explain all about the unix ‘y2038’, there is . . . → Read More: 24 Years Hence – y2038 So, you find in your kernel logs or elsewhere some error message something like: bnx2: Can’t load firmware file “bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw” That indicates there is a binary blob (or whatever firmware) missing that is needed for that device. The fix is to load up the Gentoo packaged firmware files. Most are in (surprise, surprise 😉 ) . . . → Read More: Gentoo-isms #2 – Can’t load firmware file (“Rev 03” work-in-progress… 😉 All details as of Feb 2014.) We have the continuing rise of the RaspberryPi taking an ever greater proportion of the world by storm, now beyond two million and counting. Can the RasPi alone revitalize computer education and the present day world of computer hobbyists? Or, what else is there? How . . . → Read More: RaspberryPi and multiple SBCs Desert! (ARM) How To Fix a “gcc profile is invalid” Scenario: (all as the “root” user, or via “sudo”) You run an update with “emerge” and all goes well. Then for good housekeeping, you run a “depclean”. And then you find that nothing will compile! Typical errors are such as any/all of: configure: error: C compiler cannot . . . → Read More: Gentoo-isms #1 – gcc profile fix Not sure if this is a real bug or just an unexpected feature… For Gentoo at least, the easiest way to boot onto a multi-device btrfs root is to use the “dracut” utility to create an initramfs to do the “btrfs device scan” to find all the disks to get your btrfs raid/jbod up and . . . → Read More: Gentoo Dracut btrfs Quirk |
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