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Introduced to the Linux 4.12 kernel’s staging area back in 2017 was the Realtek RTL8723BS WiFi driver. The Realtek RTL8723BS is an 802.11 b/g/ SDIO WLAN adapter with Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity too. In the nearly decade since this driver was added to the staging area, it’s continued to be cleaned up and with the Linux 7.0 merge window there is yet again a lot of work on cleaning up this WiFi driver for the old Realtek hardware.

It’s not over the finish line and still in the kernel’s staging area, but the Realtek RTL8723BS driver continues seeing more clean-ups. This driver started out as based on Realtek downstream vendor driver code and cleaned up in the year since by various kernel developers. As for its popularity, the RTL8723BS did appear in the original Intel Compute Stick as well as various Intel Atom and ARM devices.

We should just outlaw realtek. The world would be a better place.

So I would like to know from experts working on Realtek or those who are following closely enough to understand the details what exactly does the “Big HAL layer” entail interms of so much refactoring?

From what I can understand it looks like most of the vendor released stuff is not inline to the design of the kernel and thus it works in a different manner than the rest of the kernel.

But then, why wouldn’t experts try to clean room implement the driver by mimicking the official driver?

So you’ve never been to their website?

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/f10cc825-4c46-482b-a863-31dda91a5205.png

According to the wayback machine that’s been their tagline for at least 15 years

Feb 19 2011

Feb 19 2011

I guess I just never paid attention to it. My usage of debian goes back thirty years.

My main requirement is that I am using Syncthing to sync my notes from my Android phone, which uses Quillpad. Quillpad is amazing and looks super nice, and functional too, but all the notes are in one big folder rather than being subdivided by notebook. So I require a markdown editor that can create “notebooks” but don’t change the folder structure of the notes (I tested putting notes in subfolders, and quillpad thought the notes were deleted. Silly Quillpad!)

So the notebooks/similar organisation of notes needs to be specific to the app and should not change the folder structure. I would prefer if the app is open-source too, and something that fits with my desktop (KDE Plasma) would be cool too :D

This rules out Obsidian (which puts notes in a folder structure. Obsidian is great, but won’t sync well with Quillpad), Joplin won’t work either.

I am using EndeavourOS with KDE Plasma

https://youtu.be/XRpHIa-2XCE

A 30 minute video about opening up a text box and typing something into it for later, made for people who watch videos about doing that rather than just getting work done.

00:29 Requirements 4:10 Zettlr, VNote, and nb 5:48 Zim 7:50 QOwnNotes 12:31 The end of pretending this is about productivity 14:48 Emacs 21:18 Neovim 25:59 It never ends 27:12 Kakoune, Helix, Vis, Neatvi (I don’t use these)

I use paper scribblers and a pen or pencil, plus an index book so I can compile what I am entering, but I’m not in any hurry though. /s

You expect everyone to pay for free software?

You should probably read the article.

It’s almost as if the time economy of programmers is managed by their employers, and moral appeals have no effect on that dynamic

Sounds like clients could do a better job in merging cross-posts and making it easier to filter them from the view.

Just wanted to share an alias I have in use and found it useful again. It’s a simple wrapper around xargs, which I always forget how to use properly, so I set up an alias for. All it does is operate on each line on stdout.

The arguments are interpreted as the command to execute. The only thing to remember is using the {} as a placeholder for the input line. Look in the examples to understand how its used.

# Pipe each line and execute a command. The "{}" will be replaced by the line.
#
# Example:
#   cat url.txt | foreach echo download {} to directory
#   ls -1 | foreach echo {}
#   find . -maxdepth 2 -type f -name 'M*' | foreach grep "USB" {}
alias foreach='xargs -d "\n" -I{}'

Useful for quickly operating on each line of a file (in example to download from list of urls) or do something with any stdout output line by line. Without remembering or typing a for loop in terminal.

OC by @thingsiplay@lemmy.ml

See the link in this users profile which explains why

I know why. The OP decided to post where they decided to post, it’s frankly unethical to steal OP’s shit and not crosspost properly.

Long past due for retirement, the Linux 7.0 kernel has removed the obsolete Mwave driver for the 3780i ACP Modem found in some Pentium II era IBM ThinkPads from the 1990s.

The Mwave Linux driver was for the 3780i ACP Modem found in some ThinkPads. Found on the likes of the IBM ThinkPad 600E, 600, and 770 these modems allowed 56K connectivity. IBM wrote the Mwave kernel driver and the associated user-space software for it back in the 1990s.

I would assume people running a modern kernel on an orignal 32-bit first generation pentium machine don’t need such an excuse as they have to do in constantly already…

Yes, should have said “to have another excuse”

Linux hardware vendor System76 has begun teasing a redesign of their Thelio chassis that is used by their modern desktops and workstations. Helping distinguish System76 from other Linux desktop/PC vendors has been their custom-engineered, built-in-the-USA enclosures and now they are preparing to launch a next-generation design.

System76 CEO Carl Richell posted on X that “Ground-up redesigned @system76 Thelio hardware coming soon.”

Carl commented that it’s been ten months of design and engineering, over 16,000 durability test runs, and over 250 hours of thermal testing and optimization. It will be very interesting to see what they’ve managed to achieve with the redesign given how well the Thelio hardware has held up over the years in our continued testing and all-around being extremely well built and reliable. We’ve tested the likes of the Thelio Major and ARM-powered Thelio Astra.

Picture someone who says they could never become vegetarian because they love bacon too much.
It would be a lot better if they went vegetarian + bacon, than if they kept eating meat for every meal, thinking they can’t be vegetarian anyway.

I agree. But you see how that’s besides the point, right?

I read that. How many users do they have? 47k seems like a lot but how many devs does that really pay for? The answer is obviously “not enough”. Otherwise they wouldn’t be talking about dev pressure.

That amount of money is one developer full time maybe

$564,000 / year??? I’d think definitely two, maybe three.

Yeah, feels like 3-4.