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New comment by lispwitch in "macOS 27 Beta breaks the ability to boot Asahi Linux"

lispwitch — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:52:17 +0000

This is also not guaranteed to be adopted widely, but the RISC-V Server Platform Specification was recently standardized with mandatory UEFI and ACPI support: https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-server-platform/relea... I'd rather have OpenFirmware like enterprise POWER, but anything is better than static device trees.

New comment by lispwitch in "I’ve banned query strings"

lispwitch — Sun, 10 May 2026 01:54:02 +0000

CL-HTTP or AOLserver

New comment by lispwitch in "Zen 5's 2-ahead branch predictor: how a 30 year old idea allows for new tricks"

lispwitch — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 17:01:59 +0000

this seems to be how PEG parsing became popular during the last couple of decades, for example; see https://bford.info/pub/lang/peg/ (peg.pdf p11: "This work is inspired by and heavily based on Birman’s TS/TDPL and gTS/GTDPL systems [from the 1970s ...] Unfortunately it appears TDPL and GTDPL have not seen much practical use, perhaps in large measure because they were originally developed and presented as formal models [...]")