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Peter Morrison
Personal blog · nullr0ute.comhardwaresystems
Peter Morrison writes nullr0ute's blog, a personal blog at nullr0ute.com about hardware and systems. Since 2012, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked comments discuss Nvidia Jetson and Tegra Linux kernel support and Arm board hardware, but say nothing about this blog's writing, so the posts' subject is only inferred from the thread.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /2020/11/installing-fedora-on-the-nvidia-jetson-nano/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-06
What Hacker News says?
> It's a heavily diverged kernel tree, but it's all GPLv2, including the full GPU kernel-mode driver ( https://nv-tegra.nvidia.com/r/gitweb?p=linux-nvgpu.git;a=sum ...) for those. (there's no binary kernel modules present at all on the platform) > Firmware, like everyone else, and userspace is where you have the proprietary bits. My experience with this, is moving away from the Nvidia kernel isn't practically feasib…
Comment linking /2020/11/installing-fedora-on-the-nvidia-jetson-nano/
on “Microsoft Azure Adds Ampere Altra Arm CPUs”Submitted Lipstick on a Pig a.k.a. the Raspberry Pi 3 as a story · 74 points
HN discussion> Support drops real fast for older boards, leaving one stuck on old kernels (Jetson Nano and its upstream family was "EOL'd" in terms of kernel upgrades a while ago, even though Nvidia will still gladly take your money for a new Jetson Nano). - Has a lot of Nvidia stuff attached, so you do get a GPU and a PCIe slot. Note that the Jetson Nano is supported pretty well by Fedora with a fully upstream kernel. This incl…
Comment linking /2020/11/installing-fedora-on-the-nvidia-jetson-nano/
on “Microsoft Azure Adds Ampere Altra Arm CPUs”Submitted Fedora IoT Edition is go as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Peter Morrison: Why I'm not backing the Purism Librem 5 phone as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Short history of ARMv7/armhfp/arm32 in Fedora as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fedora 44 on the Raspberry Pi 5 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using iwd for WiFi in Fedora (2023) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fedora on Nvidia Jetson Xavier as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Overview of ARM machines as a story · 1 points
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