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From: Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan <ram@rkrishnan.org>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Porting plan9
Date: Mon,  1 Dec 2014 14:13:32 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1417423412.1914203.197194673.02F8E8C7@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cdabc05fb7b2b3a275be8dbf36624599@lilly.quanstro.net>

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014, at 11:14 AM, erik quanstrom wrote:
> > 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.
>
> it's all about the documentation.  if you can get it, boringing up a new
> kernel for a new architecture can go from impossible to very doable.
> it's still a lot of work, and it can be hard to sit down and spend a week
> finding that one little bit that prevents anything from working.  good
> luck, nonetheless.  more architectures is definately moar better.

Thanks. IMX6 documentation is freely available. There is a version of
u-boot. The manufacturer (Solid Run) also has made the board schematics
etc available.

>From the reading of booting(8), I am assuming that the ARM devices in
plan9 use the u-boot for booting the kernel up?



  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-01  8:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-01  5:14 Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
2014-12-01  5:44 ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-01  8:43   ` Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan [this message]
2014-12-01 14:13     ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-01 21:54     ` Steven Stallion
2014-12-02  0:30       ` Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
2014-12-02  0:56       ` Kurt H Maier
2014-12-02  2:16         ` Steven Stallion
2014-12-02  2:23           ` Skip Tavakkolian
2014-12-02  4:03           ` Kurt H Maier
2014-12-02  4:05             ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-02  4:19               ` Kurt H Maier
2014-12-02  4:23                 ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-02  2:42       ` Bakul Shah
2014-12-02  3:31         ` Steven Stallion
2014-12-02  2:43       ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-02  9:32         ` Richard Miller
2014-12-02 10:12           ` Jens Staal
2014-12-02 10:48             ` mischief
2014-12-02 10:54               ` mischief
2014-12-02 14:10           ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-02 15:21             ` Steven Stallion
2014-12-02 21:57               ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2014-12-02 22:02                 ` Iruatã Souza
2014-12-02 22:28                   ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2014-12-02 22:55                     ` Iruatã Souza
2014-12-03  0:20                     ` yoann padioleau
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-24  1:17 [9fans] porting plan9 forsyth
2002-01-24 19:13 ` Michael Grunditz
2002-01-24  0:45 jmk
2002-01-23 23:58 Michael Grunditz
2002-01-23 23:06 anothy

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