Re: [9fans] inferno runs on n770 and n800/n810 (was: Re: How can I boot plan9 on my Compaq AlphaServer DS10L?)

["Robert Raschke" <rtrlists@googlemail.com>]

Hi,

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 9:37 PM,  <fgergo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:21 PM, Anthony Sorace <anothy@gmail.com> wrote:
>> i like nokia's line, and would love to see a port of Plan 9 (or
>> Inferno) to the 770 or N800 (there's an even newer one, but i forget
>> the model off hand and don't own one of those).
>
> Inferno works perfectly on the n770 and probably on the n800, n810 as
> well. It's not packaged and doesn't have full-screen mode, but it's
> quite simple to get it running, though i could not find any use for
> it. The binary is in caerwyn's inferno emulator collection at
> http://code.google.com/p/inferno-bin/
> and you can probably easily build it yoursef from the current distribution.
>

I use my N810 as a portable (fun) development machine, I installed all
the guff like gcc etc. And with that in place it took me an afternoon
to download inferno and compile it up. This is on the N810 itself, not
some hosted dev environment. The emu commandline works very well. I've
not yet tried running wm, that's coming over the holidays. But just to
have mk on the machine is a boon. My brain is too small for gmake.

Having a native Plan 9 on it may be interesting, but probably a lot of
work to get it to not empty the battery in 30 minutes. One thing to be
said about the Maemo platform is that it is pretty good in terms of
power consumption.

Robby