From: Jeffrey Green <atallj@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] nice terminal...
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 11:47:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7F3B0E1A-1629-40B3-8A9B-872E85B580DB@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFgOgC_CHonrga-1f6n-en6TmBXd6tdh3SQAhPVmvPZ_vbtcJw@mail.gmail.com>
On Apr 22, 2012, at 11:22 AM, Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
> It's not easy even if you make appliances and sell a good number of their NICs. At a company where I worked a few years ago, we had a performance problem and it took us months to get any datasheets. When that didn't help, it took us about the same amount of time to get errata.
>
> It is not fun.
I'm assuming the proprietary stuff that is the hurdle here is a ROM based boot sequence (and language). I would think that the ARM processor architecture is standard. If so about the ROM, is the general public completely in the dark about it?
-jeff
> > So, a month has gone by and a slice of raspberry pi is looking more and
> > more tempting these days, especially since "official" delivery seems to
> > have happened last week. Has anyone yet chanced an introduction of one
> > to plan9? I would guess the initial booting would be the biggest
> > hurdle.
>
> Not to stop anyone, but I hear getting documentation from Broadcom is a
> bit of a painful project all in itself.
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-22 15:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-20 12:33 Nicolas Bercher
2012-03-20 13:32 ` Calvin Morrison
2012-03-20 21:34 ` Stephen Wiley
2012-04-01 13:21 ` Paweł Lasek
2012-03-20 14:10 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-03-20 14:19 ` Richard Miller
2012-03-20 15:52 ` erik quanstrom
2012-03-20 16:03 ` David Leimbach
2012-03-20 14:59 ` Nicolas Bercher
2012-04-22 15:08 ` Jeffrey Green
2012-04-22 15:17 ` Tristan
2012-04-22 15:22 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2012-04-22 15:47 ` Jeffrey Green [this message]
2012-04-22 16:22 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-04-22 17:40 ` Jeff Sickel
2012-04-22 18:02 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2012-04-22 23:22 ` Strake
2012-04-22 23:53 ` Joseph Stewart
2012-04-23 2:51 ` Bruce Ellis
2012-04-23 14:07 ` Jeffrey Green
2012-04-23 14:20 ` Matthew Veety
2012-04-22 21:30 ` Bakul Shah
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-05-06 22:15 Gorka Guardiola
2011-05-06 22:35 ` Jason Dreisbach
2011-05-07 1:32 ` Skip Tavakkolian
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