From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rui Carmo Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-F51737DC-B30A-4F99-A245-C2F7F53CA51F Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 15:27:26 +0000 Message-Id: <3894BD22-87BA-4D9F-9A82-721BEDCA73BD@gmail.com> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: [9fans] Inferno on microcontrollers Topicbox-Message-UUID: c7d849a2-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --Apple-Mail-F51737DC-B30A-4F99-A245-C2F7F53CA51F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I honestly don=E2=80=99t think Plan9 or Inferno will become =E2=80=9Cgeneral= use=E2=80=9D without (at the very least) a modern browser, but that was not= what motivated me to post here. Inferno, dis and 9p seem like a good fit for embedded devices, and having ru= n it successfully on a Raspberry Pi a few months ago (https://bitbucket.org/= infpi/inferno-rpi), I was wondering if the kernel and network stack would be= shrunk down to something like an ESP8266 (although don=E2=80=99t think that= has enough heap space). A while back there was the Aijuboard (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/aij= uboard#/), but nothing else seems to have popped up since 2015, and any indu= strial applications of Inferno that might be interesting are likely squirrel= ed away in commercial companies... So I=E2=80=99d like to know if anyone here knows about recent efforts to run= Inferno on other tiny machines... Happy New Year, R. > On 30 Dec 2017, at 19:57, Andre Wingor wrote: >=20 >> On 12/30/17, Rui Carmo wrote: >> That reminds me. Weren=E2=80=99t there some Inferno ports for micro contr= ollers, >=20 > Until now I did not have a need for this, so I do not know. > But often there is a need for a compact live VM with a ready OS that > must be run on a public terminal. This is a problem. Live USB I can > not load to the terminal, it forbidden. I found only Puppy Linux in > the Virtual Box, but it works very slowly. >=20 > I many times used Inferno on the desktop in the past, but I had > FreeBSD. It was usability. And here on Windows10x64 now the emu don't > start. It's a pity. >=20 > A modern OS to become popular should have a Live USB and ready-made > assemblies for almost everything. I'm sorry that Inferno does not have > a power now. >=20 > --=20 > http://andr.ru >=20 --Apple-Mail-F51737DC-B30A-4F99-A245-C2F7F53CA51F Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I honestly don=E2=80=99t th= ink Plan9 or Inferno will become =E2=80=9Cgeneral use=E2=80=9D without (at t= he very least) a modern browser, but that was not what motivated me to post h= ere.

Inferno, dis and 9p seem like a good fit for e= mbedded devices, and having run it successfully on a Raspberry Pi a few mont= hs ago (https://bitbucke= t.org/infpi/inferno-rpi), I was wondering if the kernel and network stac= k would be shrunk down to something like an ESP8266 (although don=E2=80=99t t= hink that has enough heap space).

A while back ther= e was the Aijuboard (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/aijuboard#/), but nothing else se= ems to have popped up since 2015, and any industrial applications of Inferno= that might be interesting are likely squirreled away in commercial companie= s...

So I=E2=80=99d like to know if anyone here kno= ws about recent efforts to run Inferno on other tiny machines...
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Happy New Year,

R.

On 3= 0 Dec 2017, at 19:57, Andre Wingor <andrewingor@gmail.com> wrote:

On 12/30/17, Rui Carmo <rui.carmo@gmail.com> wrote:
= That reminds me. Weren=E2=80=99t there some Inferno ports for micro co= ntrollers,

Until now I did not= have a need for this, so I do not know.
But often there is a= need for a compact live VM with a ready OS that
must be run= on a public terminal. This is a problem. Live USB I can
not= load to the terminal, it forbidden. I found only Puppy Linux in
<= span>the Virtual Box, but it works very slowly.

<= span>I many times used Inferno on the desktop in the past, but I had<= br>FreeBSD. It was usability. And here on Windows10x64 now the emu don= 't
start. It's a pity.

A mo= dern OS to become popular should have a Live USB and ready-made
assemblies for almost everything. I'm sorry that Inferno does not have
a power now.

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