From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Apple-Mail=_CBA6330C-8EEE-43E0-BDFF-68E2AF56962A"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.2 \(1874\)) From: Anthony Sorace In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 18:46:26 -0400 Message-Id: <4A005A0B-50D6-465D-B39F-577319A308F6@9srv.net> References: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] [GSOC] plan9 which arch code to use? Topicbox-Message-UUID: e22d9038-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --Apple-Mail=_CBA6330C-8EEE-43E0-BDFF-68E2AF56962A Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii sl said: > The original post (in its way) was asking for advice about > an amd64 kernel that is not publicly available. No, it wasn't. There was some confusion over the point that Plan 9, unlike some other systems, selects the arch based entirely on the running kernel (no 386 binaries running on amd64 machines). > Some people (not knowing the full situation) offered advice > about publicly available amd64 kernels and were shot down. Again, that's not what happened. Erik and cinap pointed out one can use 9atom or 9front; Charles gave instructions for building the amd64 userland. He then, later, pointed out that there are things other than just the 64-bit kernels in 9atom and 9front. It's at that point some folks seem to have felt compelled to dredge up the old mess of the original amd64 kernel, which was not what Charles was talking about and was not otherwise at issue here. I'm not sure who in this conversation you think is "not knowing the full situation"; I'm fairly confident that all the salient points on this topic have been discussed on 9fans ad nauseam. > Everything else follows from that. =46rom two faulty premises. Got it. You should re-read the thread. You may think you've been responding to what people are actually saying, but the bunker-mentality defensiveness you repeatedly exhibit has caused you to misinterpret much. As for how the situation could be improved: well, there's lots of potential answers to that question. This has nothing to do with hiring professional project managers or whatever you seem to think is required for actual coordination, but taking some care for your upstream sources is a really effective first step common among open source projects. Try starting there. Anthony --Apple-Mail=_CBA6330C-8EEE-43E0-BDFF-68E2AF56962A Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEARECAAYFAlNqt8gACgkQyrb52b5lrs52KwCfXZxTAkTn/1BfFKW3X7mMTAhC uygAn2UaCJp22k8K5xVdajZ7OnC4E1NF =yzU4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_CBA6330C-8EEE-43E0-BDFF-68E2AF56962A--