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@azonenberg@ioc.exchange
2025-06-04 18:10:40

FPGA people: how cursed is it if I scramble TX/RX lanes of my transceivers so that e.g. TX lane 0 and RX lane 1 go to a single SFP28?
They're separate clock domains anyway, separate PLL taps. I'm not using the CPLL so that's no factor.
It feels wrong, but I can't think of any reason why it would be? (I've done this before and it worked fine but that was with hacky breakout to SMA setups, not by design on a PCB)

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2025-07-04 14:42:03

from my link log —
Recovering control flow structures from Java bytecode without CFGs.
purplesyringa.moe/blog/recover
saved 2025-06-06

@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk
2025-06-05 17:32:46

My JS Krups is resisting netbooting. I see it doing a DHCP discover, and I see Kea responding with an offer, but then it just sends another Discover. Hmph. I can get to the serial console and doing boot net from there doesn't help; none of the keyboard shortcuts for network diag etc seem to work (except the one that displays the help for it...). So I took the flash SIM out and now it boots to Net rather than flash by default; alas with the same DHCP behaviour. Time to try isc-dhcp.…

A serial console photo, showing a Javastation openbootprom 'ok' prompt and help and 'show-devs' output.  It's a boring white on black text.
The mainboard of a Javastation Krups, to the left are various connectors, just above middle is a speaker and below that the Microsparc,  to the right are two RAM dimms and a flash SIMM.
A horribly hacky serial setup; between two keyboards sits a serial breakout box, various wires and crock clip leads.  It's working by good luck rather than physics, The lights for RX/TX are green and the next LED is red.