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From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 port to Raspberry Pi 3 Model B (ARM64)?
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 12:33:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160229203343.495CCB82A@mail.bitblocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Feb 2016 20:28:04 GMT." <f0675cf2d5ba2278af34e4e7f67cbf9f@hamnavoe.com>

On Mon, 29 Feb 2016 20:28:04 GMT Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> wrote:
> > Now that RPI3 is generally available, I'm wondering if there are any
> > efforts underway to port Plan 9 to it.
>
> "Underway" might be a bit ambitious since it was only announced today.
> I've ordered one to have a play with.
>
> > I would like to help in any way I
> > can.
>
> Finding a programming manual for the BCM43438 wifi/bluetooth chip would
> be a good start.
>
> Incidentally I can confirm that the Raspberry Pi Zero runs Plan 9 happily.

In theory one should be able to run the standard 9pi image on
pi3.

10-12 years ago FreeBSD had "project Evil" for an NDIS shim
layer that allowed use of windows network drivers on FreeBSD.
Has anyone considered writing a shim that allows use of a
FreeBSD driver with plan9?





  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-29 20:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-29 20:06 Skip Tavakkolian
2016-02-29 20:28 ` Richard Miller
2016-02-29 20:33   ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2016-02-29 21:46     ` erik quanstrom
2016-03-01 10:04       ` Mark Lee Smith
2016-03-01 11:04         ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2016-03-03 14:50       ` Richard Miller
2016-03-03 15:28         ` Charles Forsyth
2016-03-03 15:31         ` Charles Forsyth
2016-03-03 15:37           ` Richard Miller
2016-03-03 16:14             ` Charles Forsyth
2016-09-07 23:54         ` James A. Robinson
2016-03-02  6:49   ` Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
2016-03-02  9:10     ` Richard Miller
2016-03-02  9:22       ` Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan

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