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From: Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan <ram@rkrishnan.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Date: Mon,  1 Dec 2014 10:44:18 +0530
Subject: [9fans] Porting plan9
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Hi,

I have a hummingboard i1 board [1] which I would like to use as a Plan9
terminal. I also want to use the opportunity to learn about the plan9
kernel and read the code. The board has a FreeScale iMX6 Solo SoC which
is based on ARM-Cortex A9 core. I am hoping to reuse parts of the OMAP3
port (though it is Cortex-A8) and intend to look at the boot process of
the chip in more detail in the coming days.

Surprisingly I didn't see a paper on porting Plan9 to new architectures
in the plan9 paper collection. Any help and pointers on how to get
started with the porting effort will be highly appreciated.

[1] http://www.solid-run.com/product/hummingboard-i1/

Ramakrishnan