Re: [9fans] Porting Plan 9 to the TI Beagle Board

["Bruce Ellis" <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>]

buy one, play with it.

brucee

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com> wrote:
> I'd like to see Plan 9 being run on a portable device, and up until now I
> thought the only ways were to get an iPAQ (but are newer models compatible?)
> or to port 9vx to the iPhone (but does Apple's license allow that?). Can we
> use this board to make an alternative - the new bitsy? This seems very
> feasible, since the board is only 3 inches long (and I believe square). How
> would we get a three-button mouse to be emulated?
>
> On Aug 22, 2008, at 10:09 PM, Bruce Ellis wrote:
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>> I've just discussed this with Charles. Vita has a thumb compiler (tc)
>> which works with 5l.
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>> The Cortex-M3 is thumb-2 only so these two aren't quite sufficient,
>> but a flag will help.
>>
>> brucee
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>> On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 6:42 AM, Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> 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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