jckarter

everyone already knows i'm a dog

the swift programming language is my fault to some degree. mostly here to see dogs, shitpost, fix old computers, and/or talk about math and weird computer programming things. for effortposts check the #longpost pinned tag. asks are open.


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It doesn't look like support for FM TOWNS hardware was ever upstreamed into the official Linux kernel source, but Osamu Kurachi has been maintaining patches against Linux kernel versions up to the present-day Linux 6.7.0:

It took me a bit of hunting to find this page, so here's hoping Cohost's SEO juice makes it easier for the next person.


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Just for fun, I built a kernel using the Linux 6.9 (nice) source and Kurachi's FM TOWNS patches, and booted it on my FM TOWNS SN. Something is wrong with the console driver though...