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From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] IRQs again...
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Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 00:23:18 -0400
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On Fri May 24 22:27:23 EDT 2002, rminnich@lanl.gov wrote:
> ...
> sooner or later, with hot plug happening, the OSes will have to play this
> fun game. LinuxBIOS got us there early in this case. But I think doing
> interrupt allocation and setup in the OS is inevitable.
> ...

We've been there and done that, both running the Plan 9 code base
on hot-plug systems and using a Plan 9 kernel as the boot ROM (is it
really almost 10 years ago?).

Before you flashed LinuxBIOS on the motherboard, is it likely Plan 9
would have booted?