From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <1417423412.1914203.197194673.02F8E8C7@webmail.messagingengine.com> From: Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan To: 9fans@9fans.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 14:13:32 +0530 In-Reply-To: References: <1417410858.1852249.197150289.78A68333@webmail.messagingengine.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Porting plan9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 308e85d4-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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?