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From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] why do we need 9load?
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 13:52:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <15c12bbcce92d2cf7367991f8544bee5@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0309212324160.25353-100000@pink.lanl.gov>

On Mon Sep 22 01:26:56 EDT 2003, rminnich@lanl.gov wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Russ Cox wrote:
>
> > that was the plan.  like many projects, it got stalled for lack of manpower.
>
> ok, so there's nothing insane about it. I'm going to give it a try and see
> how it goes. It's easier to fix Plan 9 for linuxbios, then to fix both
> 9load and Plan 9 for linuxbios -- my calculator claims it is twice as easy
> to fix half the number of things.
>
> ron

I still tinker with it from time to time. There are some things about the
current /dev/reboot which I don't like.

It still doesn't solve the problem (for us great unwashed) of getting the
first kernel into memory from somewhere other than flash without writing
more 16-bit code without a real assembler.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-22 17:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-22  5:18 Ronald G. Minnich
2003-09-22  5:22 ` Russ Cox
2003-09-22  5:25   ` Ronald G. Minnich
2003-09-22 17:52     ` jmk [this message]
2003-09-23 15:14       ` ron minnich
2003-09-22  6:09 C H Forsyth

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