Ron Minnich
On The Metal
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Introduction
This chapter introduces Ron Minnich, the 'Godfather of Open Firmware,' who discusses the origins of Open Firmware, its development in the 90s, and the challenges faced with outdated firmware flashing. They also touch on the complexities of DRAM training and credit Stefan Reiner for his contribution.
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Some of the highlights of the show include:
- Netboot - Sun Microsystems: https://www.netbsd.org/docs/network/netboot/intro.sun.html https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Sparc/Netboot/de
- PCI - self defining hardware: https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/pdfs/pci_ssc_quick_guide.pdf
- Dip switches and jumpers: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/pc-hardware-in/059600513X/ch02s03s05.html
- VA Linux cluster: https://itsfoss.com/story-of-va-linux/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geeknet
- Intel L440 motherboard: https://www.ebay.com/c/1079625591
- Autoexec.bat: https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/a/autoexec.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AUTOEXEC.BAT
- LinuxBIOS: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4888 https://doc.coreboot.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coreboot
- DRAM training code (DDR): https://blog.asset-intertech.com/test_data_out/2014/11/memory-training-testing-and-margining.html https://github.com/librecore-org/librecore/wiki/Understanding-DDR-Memory-Training
- Eric Biederman: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4888 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_namespaces
- Open Source Firmware Conference: https://osfc.io
- Buildroot: https://buildroot.org/
- Source code for cat: https://twobithistory.org/2018/11/12/cat.html https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/cat.c
- whereis command: https://linux.die.net/man/1/whereis
- Gentoo: https://www.gentoo.org/
- ChromeOS project & source code: https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os https://opensource.google/projects/chromium-os https://chromium.googlesource.com/
- Gentoo USE flags: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/USE_flag
- Gentoo compiling GCC meme: https://twitter.com/mrtazz/status/674319383951446016
- Rust LLVM: https://rust-lang.github.io/rustc-guide/codegen/updating-llvm.html https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/tree/master/src/rustllvm
- Ken Thompson’s C compiler in plan9: http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/new_c_compilers/
- Reflections on Trusting Trust paper: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf
- 1145 computer
- Relay computers: http://relaysbc.sourceforge.net/history.html
- HP 2100: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_2100 https://www.hpmuseum.net/exhibit.php?class=3&cat=31
- SR33 paper tape punch in reader: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Model_33
- Dr. Nim: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Nim
- Think-a-Dot: https://www.jaapsch.net/puzzles/thinkadot.htm
- E.S.R Inc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.S.R.,_Inc.
- Digi-Comp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digi-Comp_II
- Turning Tumble (modern day Dr. Nim): https://www.turingtumble.com/
- ILLIAC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILLIAC
- Geniac: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geniac
- Edmund Berkeley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Berkeley
- Artist in France made a digital clock where the flip flops are LEDs
- Quantum Supremacy: https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/10/quantum-supremacy-using-programmable.html
- Stored-program computer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stored-program_computer
- ACPI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Configuration_and_Power_Interface
- Plan9: https://9p.io/plan9/ http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs
- Microservices revolution: https://www.infoq.com/articles/microservices-revolution/
- Unix synthetic filesystem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_file_system http://9p.cat-v.org/ http://man.cat-v.org/unix_8th/4/proc
- /dev/tcp
- Rob Pike talk on how to go wrong with naming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kj5ApnhPAE
- Los Alamos Q cluster: https://www.networkworld.com/article/2338572/los-alamos-builds-largest-infiniband-cluster.html
- VPROC: https://books.google.com/books?id=sr71_M6r3cAC&pg=PA567&lpg=PA567&dq=Vproc&source=bl&ots=Od936MFpvu&sig=ACfU3U3XSlMkeII4fMtpN3QOCRaOkSZJzw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjI3d_ZpLnmAhWVoJ4KHQTRD0cQ6AEwCXoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=Vproc&f=false
- InfiniBand: https://en...
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