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Bringing SerenityOS to real hardware, one driver at a time

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309 points LorenDB | 2 comments | 08 Jan 25 16:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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yjftsjthsd-h ◴[08 Jan 25 18:09 UTC] No.42636808[source]▶
Well.

  doas dd seek=$((0x$1)) bs=1 count=1 of=/dev/port < <(xxd -p -r <<< "$2")
There's the horrors I came for;)
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1. baq ◴[08 Jan 25 18:29 UTC] No.42637011[source]▶
the next one is somehow worse
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2. yjftsjthsd-h ◴[08 Jan 25 19:26 UTC] No.42637550[source]▶
Stuffing bytes through a faux serial port with rate limiting, or mangling the result into text? Those actually bother me less; they're kinda ugly, but in my mind they don't compare to cutting through all the nice abstractions and shoving raw bytes down a hardware port on a running Linux system.