[9fans] 9vx on OpenBSD-4.3

[9fans] 9vx on OpenBSD-4.3

[Malik Bazz]

I'm currently trying to get 9vx work on OpenBSD-4.3 (i386, 750Mhz,
256MB RAM), but each time I want to start 9vx I get the following:

$ ./9vx.FreeBSD -u glenda
Abort Trap
$

Of course FreeBSD Binary Emulation has been turned on using /etc/sysctl.conf.

Furthermore I tried also to use the Linux binary (using the Linux
Emulation, which I also switched on), but I get the same message back
in this case too.

If you need some more informations about the system, drop me a line.

Any hints how to solve this problem welcome

Thanks,
Malik

Re: [9fans] 9vx on OpenBSD-4.3

[Tim Wiess]

If you can wait a couple days I'll have some time later in the
week to port this over to OpenBSD.


> I'm currently trying to get 9vx work on OpenBSD-4.3 (i386, 750Mhz,
> 256MB RAM), but each time I want to start 9vx I get the following:
>
> $ ./9vx.FreeBSD -u glenda
> Abort Trap
> $
>
> Of course FreeBSD Binary Emulation has been turned on using /etc/sysctl.conf.
>
> Furthermore I tried also to use the Linux binary (using the Linux
> Emulation, which I also switched on), but I get the same message back
> in this case too.
>
> If you need some more informations about the system, drop me a line.
>
> Any hints how to solve this problem welcome
>
> Thanks,
> Malik

Re: [9fans] 9vx on OpenBSD-4.3

[Iruata Souza]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Tim Wiess <tim@nop.cx> wrote:
> If you can wait a couple days I'll have some time later in the
> week to port this over to OpenBSD.
>
>
>> I'm currently trying to get 9vx work on OpenBSD-4.3 (i386, 750Mhz,
>> 256MB RAM), but each time I want to start 9vx I get the following:
>>
>> $ ./9vx.FreeBSD -u glenda
>> Abort Trap
>> $
>>
>> Of course FreeBSD Binary Emulation has been turned on using /etc/sysctl.conf.
>>
>> Furthermore I tried also to use the Linux binary (using the Linux
>> Emulation, which I also switched on), but I get the same message back
>> in this case too.
>>
>> If you need some more informations about the system, drop me a line.
>>
>> Any hints how to solve this problem welcome
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Malik

I started the porting some days ago. Seems the only missing part is
one bit in i386_set_ldt.
I can upload it somewhere if anyone want to play with the missing stuff.

iru

Re: [9fans] 9vx on OpenBSD-4.3

[Iruata Souza]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Iruata Souza <iru.muzgo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Tim Wiess <tim@nop.cx> wrote:
>> If you can wait a couple days I'll have some time later in the
>> week to port this over to OpenBSD.
>>
>>
>>> I'm currently trying to get 9vx work on OpenBSD-4.3 (i386, 750Mhz,
>>> 256MB RAM), but each time I want to start 9vx I get the following:
>>>
>>> $ ./9vx.FreeBSD -u glenda
>>> Abort Trap
>>> $
>>>
>>> Of course FreeBSD Binary Emulation has been turned on using /etc/sysctl.conf.
>>>
>>> Furthermore I tried also to use the Linux binary (using the Linux
>>> Emulation, which I also switched on), but I get the same message back
>>> in this case too.
>>>
>>> If you need some more informations about the system, drop me a line.
>>>
>>> Any hints how to solve this problem welcome
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Malik

> I started the porting some days ago. Seems the only missing part is
> one bit in i386_set_ldt.
> I can upload it somewhere if anyone want to play with the missing stuff.
>

correcting myself: it's the only missing part now that i've done some work.

iru

Re: [9fans] 9vx on OpenBSD-4.3

[Malik Bazz]

Thanks for your fast replies.
I can't help you coding/porting but if you need some help for testing,
drop me a line.

Thanks,
Malik

Re: [9fans] 9vx on OpenBSD-4.3

[Tim Wiess]

> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Tim Wiess <tim@nop.cx> wrote:
>> If you can wait a couple days I'll have some time later in the
>> week to port this over to OpenBSD.
>>
>>
>>> I'm currently trying to get 9vx work on OpenBSD-4.3 (i386, 750Mhz,
>>> 256MB RAM), but each time I want to start 9vx I get the following:
>>>
>>> $ ./9vx.FreeBSD -u glenda
>>> Abort Trap
>>> $
>>>
>>> Of course FreeBSD Binary Emulation has been turned on using /etc/sysctl.conf.
>>>
>>> Furthermore I tried also to use the Linux binary (using the Linux
>>> Emulation, which I also switched on), but I get the same message back
>>> in this case too.
>>>
>>> If you need some more informations about the system, drop me a line.
>>>
>>> Any hints how to solve this problem welcome
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Malik
>
> I started the porting some days ago. Seems the only missing part is
> one bit in i386_set_ldt.
> I can upload it somewhere if anyone want to play with the missing stuff.

Ok cool. I'd be happy to look at it when I get the chance.

Re: [9fans] 9vx on OpenBSD-4.3

[Malik Bazz]

Just curious, did your porting attempt suceed?

Hope you'll post some news for the OpenBSD port here...

Thanks,
Malik

Re: [9fans] 9vx on OpenBSD-4.3

[Iruata Souza]

On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Malik Bazz <malikibnbazz@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just curious, did your porting attempt suceed?
>
> Hope you'll post some news for the OpenBSD port here...
>

sorry for not reporting until now.
I´m not at home and have no access to my tree right now, but I can
already run 9vx.
console says the kernel is getting 0M of memory. that is surely
because of my hacks.
I only wished it to compile. now it's time for me to understand the
code and write/modifiy the necessary bits for it to run correctly.
If you can wait until next Wednesday, i´ll upload it.

thanks for asking,
iru

Re: [9fans] 9vx on OpenBSD-4.3

[sqweek]

On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Iruata Souza <iru.muzgo@gmail.com> wrote:
> sorry for not reporting until now.
> I´m not at home and have no access to my tree right now, but I can
> already run 9vx.
> console says the kernel is getting 0M of memory. that is surely
> because of my hacks.

 Don't think so. Here on linux I get:
256M memory: 0M kernel data, 256M user, 256M swap
 (and everything works).
-sqweek

Re: [9fans] 9vx on OpenBSD-4.3

[Malik Bazz]

Me again - Were you successfull in porting 9vx to OpenBSD?
If you need some testing help, contact me.

Greetings,
Malik

Re: [9fans] 9vx on OpenBSD-4.3

[Brian L. Stuart]

> Me again - Were you successfull in porting 9vx to OpenBSD?
> If you need some testing help, contact me.

Speaking of that, does anyone have an idea where NetBSD
would fit into that?  Of the bunch, that's the one I've
used most and have deployed in the most places.  I
would think there would be some hope that an OpenBSD
port would also work on NetBSD, but they forked long
enough ago that threading could well be completely
different.

BLS

Re: [9fans] 9vx on OpenBSD-4.3

[Iruata Souza]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Malik Bazz <malikibnbazz@gmail.com> wrote:
> Me again - Were you successfull in porting 9vx to OpenBSD?
> If you need some testing help, contact me.
>

http://iru.oitobits.net/src/vx32-0.10-openbsd-compiled.tgz
I guess you'll have problems compiling. Let me know if you do.

thanks,
iru

Re: [9fans] 9vx on OpenBSD-4.3

[Iruata Souza]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Brian L. Stuart <blstuart@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> Me again - Were you successfull in porting 9vx to OpenBSD?
>> If you need some testing help, contact me.
>
> Speaking of that, does anyone have an idea where NetBSD
> would fit into that?  Of the bunch, that's the one I've
> used most and have deployed in the most places.  I
> would think there would be some hope that an OpenBSD
> port would also work on NetBSD, but they forked long
> enough ago that threading could well be completely
> different.
>

NetBSD is closer from OpenBSD than OpenBSD is from FreeBSD. so, you
may want to build and test my little changes.

iru

Re: [9fans] 9vx on OpenBSD-4.3

[Nick LaForge]

>>> Me again - Were you successfull in porting 9vx to OpenBSD?
>>> If you need some testing help, contact me.
>>
>> Speaking of that, does anyone have an idea where NetBSD
>> would fit into that?  Of the bunch, that's the one I've
>> used most and have deployed in the most places.  I
>> would think there would be some hope that an OpenBSD
>> port would also work on NetBSD, but they forked long
>> enough ago that threading could well be completely
>> different.
>>
>
> NetBSD is closer from OpenBSD than OpenBSD is from FreeBSD. so, you
> may want to build and test my little changes.
>
> iru
>
>

i'm interested in netbsd as a replacement for linux to serve 9p in
small ARM machines... i could use this

it seems netbsd-5 will be far different than the netbsd-4 that was
released some time ago, this may be important

Re: [9fans] 9vx on OpenBSD-4.3

[Uriel]

> i'm interested in netbsd as a replacement for linux to serve 9p in
> small ARM machines... i could use this

Why not Inferno? (Native or hosted)

uriel

Re: [9fans] 9vx on OpenBSD-4.3

[Nick LaForge]

>> i'm interested in netbsd as a replacement for linux to serve 9p in
>> small ARM machines... i could use this
>
> Why not Inferno? (Native or hosted)
>
> uriel
>
>

thanks, i'd overlooked that option

I must say though that having to re-target to limbo is a minus.  Is
there a 'plan9 c' to dis compiler?  The new slew of virtual interfaces
are cool because they are somewhat transparent with respect to the
existing interface; i.e., machine code

in the general case, i'd like a non-linux platform to take plan9 (not
inferno) to more machines

i am not intending to knock inferno.  But does it not seem to have
missed the boat as a unifying platform, and now is more of a niche,
'embedded' solution ?  (Maybe though this was intended all along.)  I
seem more interested today in broadly employing the more general
virtual interfaces such as vx32, lguest, kvm, qemu, etc

nkl

Re: [9fans] 9vx on OpenBSD-4.3

[Brian L. Stuart]

> >> i'm interested in netbsd as a replacement for linux to serve 9p in
> >> small ARM machines... i could use this
> >
> > Why not Inferno? (Native or hosted)
> >
> > uriel
>
> thanks, i'd overlooked that option
>
> I must say though that having to re-target to limbo is a minus.  Is
> there a 'plan9 c' to dis compiler?  The new slew of virtual interfaces
> are cool because they are somewhat transparent with respect to the
> existing interface; i.e., machine code

There is a C to Limbo translator.  It doesn't do
the whole job, but it does take care of some of
the more tedious aspects and gives you a starting
point that's not a blank screen.

BLS