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From: Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] DigiLand DL701Q quad core tablet
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 09:33:27 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86db177ccac37021891fee0ce1e0c1f9@hamnavoe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0EB3385A-BD60-47B0-B7F4-B4CE2EF3FA7F@quintile.net>

> in reality the kernel is the same modulo some drivers and one variable ( e.g. no vga in cpu servers).

It's actually quite easy to make a single binary which can be configured
at boot time to be either cpu or terminal, depending on a plan9.ini variable.
IIRC it's a few lines of code in each of boot.c and main.c.

However I can imagine a scenario in which this would be a security hole.




  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-19  9:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-15 16:15 cigar562hfsp952fans
2014-11-17 14:03 ` erik quanstrom
2014-11-19 15:41   ` cigar562hfsp952fans
2014-12-18 20:06     ` cigar562hfsp952fans
2014-12-18 23:48       ` Charles Forsyth
2014-12-19  3:15       ` da Tyga
2014-12-19  7:43         ` Quintile
2014-12-19  9:33           ` Richard Miller [this message]
2014-12-19 15:14             ` Iruatã Souza

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