From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] how small can you get
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 12:14:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3cdfe9d48be318e54ba7014f688a0680@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
On Fri Feb 8 11:43:15 EST 2002, rminnich@lanl.gov wrote:
> That tiny kernel from anothy is pretty encouraging.
>
> OK, unless it makes people REALLY unhappy, we're going to look into a way
> to get plan9 to boot plan9. We're finding that OSes make pretty good
> bootstraps, since they generally are current on hardware bugs and glitches
> that bootstrap loaders lag on. Making an OS boot an OS is not that hard
> anyway.
>
> Thanks
>
> ron
Also, that's exactly what we did 10 years ago when we used to build hardware.
The Hobbit board ROM monitor was just a Plan 9 kernel with a slightly different
memory mapping and /boot replaced with interactive code.
next reply other threads:[~2002-02-08 17:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-08 17:14 jmk [this message]
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2002-02-09 20:52 Russ Cox
2002-02-08 16:19 anothy
2002-02-08 16:42 ` Ronald G Minnich
2002-02-08 17:04 ` Sean Quinlan
2002-02-08 17:16 ` Ronald G Minnich
2002-02-08 2:53 jmk
2002-02-08 5:25 ` Lucio De Re
2002-02-08 15:20 ` Ronald G Minnich
[not found] <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
2002-02-08 1:48 ` Russ Cox
2002-02-08 1:52 ` Scott Schwartz
2002-02-08 15:17 ` Ronald G Minnich
2002-02-08 0:19 Ronald G Minnich
2002-02-08 10:08 ` Boyd Roberts
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