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PCIe any% speedrun, day 6: Almost at minimum-viable-baseline-happy-path status!
It's still 2.5 GT/s only, I haven't implemented up-negotiation to 5 GT/s speed yet (or tested that on the SoC side for that matter).
Configuration reads and writes work; they're translated to APB bus transactions and bridged to an APB register block that reports a bunch of hard coded default values and lets you change a few things like BARs.

Good morning on this #siletSunday - it's windy and rainy outside. Maybe I'll just have a walk later. I'm quite happy that we did a hike yesterday!
And just now I used the time to write about a hike I did this May:

while we're mourning the soon-shuttered @… blog, station manager ken's post about the very weird professional blacklist snitch harvey matusow (who ratted on pete seeger) is a big part of what set me on the path to write a book about the weavers.

Harvey Matusow: The Biggest Snitch in American History (MP3s)
So how did the "most hated man in America" relax after destroying the lives of hundreds of innocent Americans, giving LSD to Robert F. Kennedy, tangling with Roy Cohn and becoming prison buddies with Wilhelm Reich? By moving to England...

Memory in Large Language Models: Mechanisms, Evaluation and Evolution
Dianxing Zhang, Wendong Li, Kani Song, Jiaye Lu, Gang Li, Liuchun Yang, Sheng Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18868

Memory in Large Language Models: Mechanisms, Evaluation and Evolution
Under a unified operational definition, we define LLM memory as a persistent state written during pretraining, finetuning, or inference that can later be addressed and that stably influences outputs. We propose a four-part taxonomy (parametric, contextual, external, procedural/episodic) and a memory quadruple (location, persistence, write/access path, controllability). We link mechanism, evaluation, and governance via the chain write -> read -> inhibit/update. To avoid distorted comparisons acr…

Status of #TypePad migration, 21 Sept.
With TypePad shutting down on 30 Sept, I've been looking at how to move 5 blogs that I've had there for **20 years** with over 2,500 posts.
The reality is that I write on them so rarely that I could really just make them static sites and all would be fine.
However, an *easy* path right now seems to be to bring them into