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- 15:01, 29 April 2025 diff hist +791 BIOS →Boot Sector: Note about error messages added. current
- 16:31, 16 April 2025 diff hist +51 Kernel/Gentoo Kernel Configuration Guide See also: +Dracut, +Installkernel current
- 16:21, 16 April 2025 diff hist +67 Kernel/Gentoo Kernel Configuration Guide genkernel is unmaintained! (see genkernel article); dracut may be an alternative
- 13:36, 16 April 2025 diff hist +157 BIOS sources
- 13:20, 16 April 2025 diff hist +56 BIOS EEPROM and flash memory (sometimes also called "flash EEPROM") is erasable and reprogrammable. But also EPROM is reprogrammable. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EEPROM and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS#Hardware
- 10:19, 16 April 2025 diff hist -2 m BIOS BIOS chip, not EEPROM chip...
- 10:14, 16 April 2025 diff hist +40 BIOS repharsed
- 10:10, 16 April 2025 diff hist +436 BIOS BIOS upgrades can also address security issues, so this really is a two-way street. Malware of this type is called "BIOS rootkit".
- 18:50, 21 March 2025 diff hist +7 AMDGPU see e.g. https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-rx-9070-xt.c4229 (under "Navi 48 GPU Notes"): "Display Core Next: 3.2.0"; there is more than one ISA on Radeon cards, e.g. the Shader ISA is GFX x.y (NAVI48/44: GFX12.0), and there is VCN (Video Core Next) for hardware video coding, and so on... current
- 18:39, 21 March 2025 diff hist +307 AMDGPU more Phoronix links...
- 18:23, 21 March 2025 diff hist +20 AMDGPU Yes. Kernel 6.14 and Mesa 25.1 are currently under development. I know.
- 18:16, 21 March 2025 diff hist +416 AMDGPU NAVI48: required versions
- 11:15, 4 March 2025 diff hist +2 m Ryzen →Troubleshooting: outline change: put all 1st gen Ryzen stuff under →1st gen Ryzen series (1000 series): i.e. effectively moving →Broken VME (Virtual-8086 Mode Enhancements) on 1st gen Ryzen: up current
- 11:09, 4 March 2025 diff hist -3 m Ryzen →Segmentation faults during compilation: the 1000 series is no longer sold, and this information is from 2017: using past tense.
- 11:04, 4 March 2025 diff hist +244 Talk:Ryzen →"See also the datasheet generated from above questionnaire." leads to dead link.: fixed by removing the note current
- 11:03, 4 March 2025 diff hist -277 Ryzen →Faulty hardware: remove the note with the missing Google document entirely and make the forum topics be a note instead. See: Talk:Ryzen#"See also the datasheet generated from above questionnaire." leads to dead link.
- 07:03, 11 February 2025 diff hist +464 EFI System Partition efibootmgr example current
- 08:46, 10 February 2025 diff hist -6 m EFI System Partition fix (don't know what I did there...)
- 08:45, 10 February 2025 diff hist +34 EFI System Partition +rEFInd
- 12:42, 7 January 2025 diff hist +7 AMDGPU RX 7000 is a series, not a specific GPU
- 12:41, 7 January 2025 diff hist +37 AMDGPU RDNA4: https://www.techpowerup.com/330549/amd-debuts-radeon-rx-9070-xt-and-rx-9070-powered-by-rdna-4-and-fsr-4?cp=4
- 22:50, 3 January 2025 diff hist +31 AMDGPU ~ is not "unstable" but "testing" according to KEYWORDS
- 22:44, 3 January 2025 diff hist +1,084 AMDGPU RDNA 4: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/?architecture=RDNA+4.0 and RDNA 3.5: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/?architecture=RDNA+3.5 and furthermore the additions to RDNA 1-3 also from TechPowerUp as well as MESA (also pre-VEGA), see https://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/; PHOENIX also from TechPowerUP (RDNA 3); NAVI48: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/?architecture=RDNA+4.0
- 15:26, 29 December 2024 diff hist +1 /etc/portage/make.conf →{{Anchor: työl
- 12:32, 29 December 2024 diff hist -1 /etc/portage/make.conf typo? according to Localization/Guide#L10N it should be L10N, not L10NS...
- 17:05, 17 December 2024 diff hist +1 YubiKey/PAM →Emerge: Why would anyone want to confute the module? I think it is more likely that those tools are for "(to) assist in the configuration" instead of "(to) assist in the confutation"... current
- 13:15, 17 December 2024 diff hist +1 m YubiKey →U2F & FIDO: USE flag corrected current
- 14:16, 29 November 2024 diff hist +2 m Talk:MIDI controller guide →Rename page?: tf#2
- 14:15, 29 November 2024 diff hist +1 m Talk:MIDI controller guide →Rename page?: tf
- 14:13, 29 November 2024 diff hist +159 Talk:MIDI controller guide →Rename page?: edit
- 14:11, 29 November 2024 diff hist +392 Talk:MIDI controller guide →Rename page?: fluidsynth?
- 16:51, 16 November 2024 diff hist +113 m Talk:Portage TMPDIR on tmpfs →Unhealthy levels of fearfulness in the intro paragraph: current state linked (for future reference) current
- 16:47, 16 November 2024 diff hist +3,656 Talk:Portage TMPDIR on tmpfs →Unhealthy levels of fearfulness in the intro paragraph: Just found this: it was me! And response, intended to be constructive. I hope everyone can see that...
- 10:41, 15 November 2024 diff hist +48 Zram →Using systemd zram-generator: more specific on what "best" really means
- 23:24, 26 October 2024 diff hist +9 m NTFS rephrased
- 14:22, 8 October 2024 diff hist +58 Master Boot Record Slightly restructured and rephrased: the management tools fit better to the common use cases as to the limitations, which I also reworked (only slightly)...
- 14:16, 8 October 2024 diff hist +354 Master Boot Record regarding the previous deletion: I had "MS-DOS" in there for a reason, namely that it is sometimes also called that, i.e. parted calls the partition table "msdos" (see also: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/289389/what-are-the-differences-between-the-various-partition-tables)
- 21:16, 30 September 2024 diff hist +216 FAT →Manual mount options: for historical purposes: added the information, since when shortname=mixed is the default (because it used to be shortname=lower for quite some time); FYI kernel 2.6.32 was released end of 2009.
- 15:57, 25 September 2024 diff hist +2 NTFS →Native support: rephrased: not "if" it is loaded, but "when" it is loaded. Yes?
- 15:56, 25 September 2024 diff hist +181 NTFS small changes concerning ntfs3, and /etc/filesystems might be the reason for having to use "-t ntfs3" (see the file /etc/filesystems for details!)
- 11:40, 14 September 2024 diff hist +42 SSD →Dealing with empty blocks: See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Solid_state_drive#TRIM
- 11:08, 14 September 2024 diff hist 0 m NTFS →BitLocker: tf dev
- 11:04, 14 September 2024 diff hist -3 m NTFS →BitLocker: remove -v (for verbose) on the cryptsetup example...
- 09:15, 14 September 2024 diff hist 0 NTFS →BitLocker: Don't write recovery key capitalized
- 09:12, 14 September 2024 diff hist +346 NTFS →BitLocker: Tip added where to find information on how to get the BitLocker recovery key
- 08:59, 14 September 2024 diff hist +17 NTFS →NTFS-3G: rephrased the USE=suid part...
- 08:56, 14 September 2024 diff hist +76 NTFS →NTFS-3G: Safety first: I was running NTFS-3G for years without USE="suid" without issues, thus I reversed the sentence. Also: why would sys-fs/ntfs3g be "currently the only FUSE-based implementation available in the main Gentoo repository"? There's also sys-fs/fuse-exfat and sys-fs/fuse-overlayfs and sys-fs/fuseiso and sys-fs/squashfuse...
- 08:43, 14 September 2024 diff hist +20 m NTFS →NTFS-3G (FUSE implementation): Use template KEntry
- 08:42, 14 September 2024 diff hist +51 m NTFS →Native support: Use template KEntry
- 19:48, 13 September 2024 diff hist -1 m NTFS →BitLocker: remove a comma