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50 most recent check-ins by user tangent

2026-05-19
02:51
Squished a few more references to the long-obsolete boot/6.script check-in: 051b1826ca user: tangent tags: trunk
2026-05-16
21:00
Removed the long-obsolete ETOS boot script. That should have been removed way back in 2017 when I nuked etosv5b-demo.rk05. check-in: dcb886ac27 user: tangent tags: trunk
2026-04-15
23:52
Squished unwanted diffs from trunk leaf check-in: 0a695350d4 user: tangent tags: release
23:52
Whitespace fix check-in: ed581f385c user: tangent tags: trunk
23:47
Completed the release merge; mkrel choked check-in: 232077dead user: tangent tags: release, v20260415
23:43
Released v20260415 check-in: 1e00350f17 user: tangent tags: trunk
2026-04-14
11:45
Style, edit, and clarity pass on the change log in anticipation of rolling it into a "make release", but there's more to do before then, so I decided to commit what I have pending an update to the date line. check-in: 8dd0d03732 user: tangent tags: trunk
11:41
One last Open SIMH update check-in: 76fba0a51d user: tangent tags: trunk
11:32
Path fix and simplified instructions check-in: 90193bfd62 user: tangent tags: trunk
10:53
Path fix check-in: df94eabfb7 user: tangent tags: trunk
10:51
Edit pass on the recent improvements to the OS images doc. check-in: 2dceb2d4a7 user: tangent tags: trunk
09:59
Promoted Bill Cattey into the maintainer role in AUTHORS.md. check-in: d90226ad4a user: tangent tags: trunk
2026-04-12
22:47
Setting the branch name in os-image/layer/common.yaml at configure time to match the checkout's branch name. As it was, the OS image was hard-coded to build what was on the release branch, which meant you could not test before release. check-in: d1a670753d user: tangent tags: trunk
22:25
Renamed pidp8i-image-gen to os-image: shorter and non-redundant. check-in: e8a72bffb5 user: tangent tags: trunk
2026-04-11
17:17
The 'make install' process now copies our etc/pidp8i.service file into $prefix/etc/ so that the firstboot call to 'pidp8i install' can find it. Before, it presumed the source tree was uncleaned and could find it there, but that's no longer true, for good reason. This is a better scheme regardless. check-in: c1d612ce99 user: tangent tags: trunk
07:20
Added a "depends" file to the OS build process, making explicit our dependencies instead of calling them out in the docs, reducing the RTFM requirement. check-in: e39d0e1d9c user: tangent tags: trunk
07:15
Merged near-duplicate build instructions from RELEASE-PROCESS.md into the actual image build process doc. check-in: 68575897bf user: tangent tags: trunk
06:44
Removed the explicit "man" package install, as the previously added man-db marks it as a known conflict. Kept the manpages package, but alphabetized it in that section of the list. check-in: c974c1f68d user: tangent tags: trunk
2026-04-07
08:22
Cherrypicked a few changes made on the release branch onto trunk, where they should have been made. check-in: d1b17e3a0f user: tangent tags: trunk
08:20
Nuked the hardware keyswitch idea. It never went anywhere, and the wiki article describing it is gone now. check-in: 5d2fe92af5 user: tangent tags: trunk
07:29
Simplified the installation of deeper.service, and using the installed version of the binary, not the source tree one. check-in: a4cf33c4e5 user: tangent tags: release
07:24
Added a Deeper Thought systemd unit file check-in: 05b77ee96d user: tangent tags: release
06:03
Second try at cleaning the build tree after installing during the binary OS image build process, to avoid shipping unnecessary binaries. check-in: 30bc9659d6 user: tangent tags: trunk
05:24
Added commands 'man' and 'file' to the OS image, the last of the things specified by POSIX that we feel strongly about having everywhere. check-in: ee9ed5f9a5 user: tangent tags: trunk
2026-04-06
12:05
Added less and vim to the binary image check-in: 58981e6148 user: tangent tags: trunk
12:05
Added a 'make clean' step after 'make install' for the new image mechanism so we don't pack up and distribute uninstalled binaries easily recreated. check-in: 0542416503 user: tangent tags: trunk
11:45
Variable reference fix in the new rpi-image-gen docs check-in: f93b66af89 user: tangent tags: trunk
09:03
Added the TMPDIR tip, needed on my CM5 build box, with "only" two gigs of RAM. check-in: 592be29a7d user: tangent tags: trunk
2026-04-05
23:07
Switched from the zstd sparse image to an xz-compressed full image, which both Raspberry Pi Imager and Balena Etcher appear to like. check-in: 6e73cace9b user: tangent tags: trunk
21:38
Edit pass on the new release docs after following them here and adjusting to suit. Added a "Deployment" section as a result of a successful run. check-in: de1ab81f88 user: tangent tags: trunk
19:06
Dropped the "fossil open URI" method from the contribution doc, and stripped the Git-like alternative down to a mere mention. We want the doc to focus on what we actually recommend, the classic method allowing multiple checkout directories. check-in: 0e07603525 user: tangent tags: trunk
18:26
Whitespace fix to previous check-in: 790285d3a2 user: tangent tags: trunk
18:25
Moved the rsync tip referring to ~/pidp8i-image-gen from the "prerequisites" section of the release process doc — where it hasn't even been created yet — to a trailing hint for those iterating on the following "Build the Image" section. Also shortened the command. check-in: ecbac5af55 user: tangent tags: trunk
2026-03-08
12:33
Tweaks to the new rpi-image-gen process description check-in: 49bd0d9c1a user: tangent tags: pidp8i-image-gen
2024-12-19
22:38
More Python raw string hackery. This needs to be checked by an actual Pythonista, not a pidgin speaker like me. check-in: 6841cab34a user: tangent tags: trunk
22:29
Made several strings in bin/os8pkg.in "raw" to get around a recent SyntaxWarning gripe. check-in: d29fd7be58 user: tangent tags: trunk
2024-03-18
15:53
Broken URL fixes check-in: a555587cd1 user: tangent tags: trunk
15:16
Link made to work only under "fossil ui" now works under other hosting check-in: 024c80d686 user: tangent tags: trunk
2024-03-14
05:20
Removed the test for the pidp8i-test -v flag. It was added in 20170401 with the intent of printing the software configuration string and exiting, but it no longer works, if it ever did. check-in: 24803b41aa user: tangent tags: trunk
2024-02-08
21:09
Using the new Pikchr diamond primitive in the contribution guide's commit flowchart. check-in: d1b190b233 user: tangent tags: trunk
2022-10-15
09:43
Markdown formatting fix check-in: b56241f7d7 user: tangent tags: trunk
2022-10-13
03:03
Installing os8-cp after os8-run in "make install" check-in: 6beed7df47 user: tangent tags: trunk
2022-07-04
12:28
Grammar tweak check-in: 0ef5a18707 user: tangent tags: trunk
2022-01-08
02:55
Typo fix check-in: ef142cdc8e user: tangent tags: trunk
02:51
Updated SIMH to get Rick Murphy's FPP bug fix. check-in: b74012df75 user: tangent tags: trunk
2022-01-02
01:37
Small tweak to "clone" language in the contributing guide check-in: 96307b81e3 user: tangent tags: trunk
2021-12-20
17:21
Merged CONTRIBUTING.md changes in leaf check-in: 6c073bdde3 user: tangent tags: cycle-realistic
17:21
Fixed an obvious bug in the new material added to src/pidp8i/main.c.in check-in: 8689b4ae5c user: tangent tags: cycle-realistic
17:20
Merged cycle-accurate branch tips together. check-in: f5d7f8b691 user: tangent tags: cycle-realistic
17:05
Typographic tweak check-in: ef267a71d2 user: tangent tags: trunk