Re: [9fans] Small Plan 9 Platforms

["Brian L. Stuart" <blstuart@bellsouth.net>]

On Wed, 8/5/15, Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com> wrote:
> RPI's running something like plan9-bcm (check github) where gpio
> is exposed should work. I'm going to try plan9-bcm this weekend;
> i'll keep you posted.

Thanks for the pointer.  I'll definitely check that out.  I'm hoping to
expose them to a little bit of working in the kernel anyway, but
don't want to take so much of the quarter's time as to get them
to the point where they can write their own drivers.  So depending
on where plan9-bcm stands, it might be just right.

> I like ODROID hardware, but obviously there
> isn't a Plan 9 port for it.

True.  Though in looking into some stuff on the Banana Pi,
I've seen indications that it supposedly can run at least one
ODROID image and it claims to be basically RPi compatible.
If all that's true (and things work out ideally) the Plan9 RPi
port might not be all that far away from running on it.

> Arduino Yún (MIPS+AVR) could make a cool device for Plan 9,
> but the MIPS part of the hardware is closed.

I've had a pretty similar reaction to that one.
 
> On the smaller end of the scale, I've just started porting lib9p
> to esp8266. I'm using ESP01; it is a cheap yet very capable
> device.

Very cool.  I'd not seen these before.  Keep us posted on your
progress on it.  that would be a lot of fun to play with.

BLS