From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <0ac601c10bb0$6b0c1c70$c0b7c6d4@SOMA> From: "Boyd Roberts" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <20010712152608.82A4A199E1@mail.cse.psu.edu> <3B4F029B.83078EEA@null.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] General question about hosted interfaces MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 17:28:07 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: caae5d8e-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote: > Why don't you write the Plan 9 driver for the hardware you want to use? i'd add in high risk of trashing the machine while kernel hacking it into a state so i can use my weird, french, but cool, vaio(s). i can type on its keyboard to an acceptable [ascii] degree, but i can't back it up. i've debugged and written far too much unix kernel code to have a morbid dread of booting new kernels on non backed up m/c's. i think i've trashed two file-systems in my time, but _they_ were backed up. those rm-03's were great. all that removable media stuff was great. write protect everything in sight and boot off a development pack.