From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <32a656c204111716543de2b0cd@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 09:54:40 +0900 From: Vester Thacker To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] pc boot and ether drivers In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 05d83f7a-eace-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 21:11:42 -0500, jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote: > It's mostly historic and most of the reasons have gone away. > Sharing code with the current 9load code would be more trouble > than it's worth. There are ideas for doing a better job by > rewriting the bootstrap altogether, but who knows if/when it > will ever be done. Are you looking for volunteers for creating a new bootstrap? If so, then maybe a working group could be formed... something akin to what EricVH has done with v9fs. -vester