From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3e1162e60908280824l13f56a09s406be12676e8f511@mail.gmail.com> References: <3e1162e60908280815u7121f7bm27194f853ca00070@mail.gmail.com> <4e7a3e369d114bd12eedf9cc84186093@quanstro.net> <3e1162e60908280824l13f56a09s406be12676e8f511@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:33:25 -0700 Message-ID: <13426df10908280833i7de1eacbw7b63fa9ab7701a0d@mail.gmail.com> From: ron minnich To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [9fans] new 9atom.iso Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5a09fea6-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:24 AM, David Leimbach wrote: > Could be, I've never had the luxury of trying it all out... however I > thought a minimal linux from coreboot/linuxbios (I think it was called > linuxbios when this was tried) could kexec plan 9. Actually i wrote something in 1999 called lobos that preceded kexec, and maybe even /dev/reboot (not sure). I still recall a linux groupie telling me that "Linus would never accept linux rebooting linux into the kernel" ... ha! I've got a reasonable summary article of kernels booting kernels -- all 5 versions of them -- in some cluster 200x paper. It concluded that Plan 9 was the cleanest of the lot. Surprise! ron