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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] nice terminal...
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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.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> Not to stop anyone, but I hear getting documentation from Broadcom is =
a
> bit of a painful project all in itself.
>=20
>=20