From: William Josephson <jkw@eecs.harvard.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9ports to NetBSD
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 13:22:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041207182242.GB21003@mero.morphisms.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <038021ee700f4c13187b3e750f329d99@proxima.alt.za>
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 11:03:02AM +0200, Lucio De Re wrote:
> I can get most of the way there, but
> <sched.h>
> and
> sched_yield()
> concern me. The former seems quite unrelated to the 9ports altogether
> and the latter does not appear in NetBSD (1.6.1, nearly up to date) at
> all.
What do you mean by ``unrelated''? As I recall it is there so that
the lock routines can yield the processor. I expect that sleep() is
sufficient, but it is there for a reason.
> For the record, I downloaded plan9-20040708.tar.gz which seems close
> to being the final word, if the web site is to be believed.
There has been additional work since, but that's the latest
that is in a releasable state. I expect the next one to support
FreeBSD 5.x and NetBSD 2 (assuming I have time).
-WJ
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-07 18:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-07 9:03 Lucio De Re
2004-12-07 18:22 ` William Josephson [this message]
2004-12-07 18:37 ` Micah Stetson
2004-12-08 3:55 ` Lucio De Re
2004-12-07 17:09 Richard C Bilson
2004-12-07 17:27 ` Lucio De Re
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