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Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:09:34 +1000
From: "Bruce Ellis" <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Porting Plan 9 to the TI Beagle Board
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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
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