* [9fans] OLPC machines
@ 2015-01-06 10:18 Matthew Bonner
2015-01-06 19:47 ` Anthony Sorace
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From: Matthew Bonner @ 2015-01-06 10:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
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Greetings,
I have an early model OLPC machine (XO1) and contemplating trying to make
Plan 9 run on it.
I know Ameya Palande did some GSoC work back in 2007 and found some useful
notes and resources on his blog [1]
Has anyone else worked on these machines? Reasons to not bother?
Any info or tips for porting greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Matthew
[1] http://gsoc.cat-v.org/people/ameya/blog/
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* Re: [9fans] OLPC machines
2015-01-06 10:18 [9fans] OLPC machines Matthew Bonner
@ 2015-01-06 19:47 ` Anthony Sorace
2015-01-06 21:24 ` Kurt H Maier
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From: Anthony Sorace @ 2015-01-06 19:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
There is at least somewhat more current work than that.
Tim Newsham was working on a port in 2010. It booted, but was limited (iirc, no networking and some graphics problems). The files from that on my system are dated 2012, but I think that's just from me being careless when I moved something in that year. The Contrib Index [1] reports that tristan did some sort of update to newsham's work, but I don't believe I tracked those changes. I'm not sure what the relationship was between newsham's work and the original GSoC project.
The XO1 still sort of a neat machine, although obviously things have moved on a bit since 2007. The weird stuff they do with their screen is interesting; looks way better greyscale than color.
[1] http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Contrib_index/index.html
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* Re: [9fans] OLPC machines
2015-01-06 19:47 ` Anthony Sorace
@ 2015-01-06 21:24 ` Kurt H Maier
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From: Kurt H Maier @ 2015-01-06 21:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Quoting Anthony Sorace <a@9srv.net>:
> There is at least somewhat more current work than that.
I have an XO-1 and an XO-1.5 if anyone wants me to test an image.
I also have an XO-4 but that's some kind of arm game with SDIO
wifi that may or may not be workable.
khm
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