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From: "Bruce Ellis" <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Porting Plan 9 to the TI Beagle Board
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:09:34 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <775b8d190808221909g3bfc7886u31a9786e53d25cfc@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5fe57dd57eb2497d8edc8f6af8da5d99@9netics.com>

I've just discussed this with Charles. Vita has a thumb compiler (tc)
which works with 5l.

The Cortex-M3 is thumb-2 only so these two aren't quite sufficient,
but a flag will help.

brucee

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 6:42 AM, Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com> wrote:
> this is what brucee said a while back about an ARM Cortex-M3
> based device:
>
>> I found the data sheet for the
>> Cortex chip if someone needs it. A bit of a challenge for an arm port
>> but it's fun indeed.
>
> the "fun" refers to this device:
>
> http://www.stm32circle.com
>
>> In the recent NeXT thread Eric mentioned the TI Beagle Board
>> (http://beagleboard.org/).  It's quite neat:  $150 for a 3" x 3" PCB
>> w/ a 600 MHz ARM core, HD capable video, and SD card, audio, serial,
>> USB and DVI ports.  The documentation seems fairly complete, although
>> according the mailing list there are issues about how much of the
>> video and DSP interfaces will be documented.  Hardware-wise it seems
>> it only needs Ethernet to make it capable of being a Plan 9 terminal,
>> although in theory that can be added via USB.
>>
>> How much would be involved in porting Plan 9 to it?  Would the current
>> Plan 9 ARM compiler be up to the task?
>>
>>   John
>
>
>



  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-23  2:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-22 20:10 John Barham
2008-08-22 20:42 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2008-08-23  2:09   ` Bruce Ellis [this message]
2008-08-23  4:14     ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-08-23  5:22       ` Bruce Ellis
2008-08-23  5:35       ` Skip Tavakkolian
2008-08-23  5:38         ` Bruce Ellis
2008-08-23  5:49           ` Bruce Ellis
2008-08-23  9:04         ` Salva Peiró
2008-08-24  3:19       ` Latchesar Ionkov
2008-08-24  3:28         ` ron minnich
2008-08-22 21:59 ` David Leimbach
2008-08-23  6:03   ` John Barham
2008-08-23  6:22     ` Bruce Ellis
2008-08-23 14:00 erik quanstrom

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