From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <775b8d190808222222n39b7db48xa466a135171b8892@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:22:07 +1000 From: "Bruce Ellis" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4f34febc0808221310tfd4c0d0w523a01cad11a7eef@mail.gmail.com> <5fe57dd57eb2497d8edc8f6af8da5d99@9netics.com> <775b8d190808221909g3bfc7886u31a9786e53d25cfc@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Porting Plan 9 to the TI Beagle Board Topicbox-Message-UUID: 055ee3ea-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 buy one, play with it. brucee On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Pietro Gagliardi 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: > >> 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 >>> >>> >>> >> > > >