From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:34:22 -0800
Message-ID: <8739oe3zup.wl%john@jfloren.net>
From: John Floren <john@jfloren.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
In-Reply-To: <9df2e5762446e65fe40f708912795f1e@quintile.net>
References: <9df2e5762446e65fe40f708912795f1e@quintile.net>
User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka)
	FLIM/1.14.9 (=?UTF-8?B?R29qxY0=?=) APEL/10.8 Emacs/23.2
	(i486-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO)
MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka")
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Subject: Re: [9fans] ARM based terminal?
Topicbox-Message-UUID: a265136a-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025

At Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:26:33 +0000,
Steve Simon wrote:
>
> I want to build a net booting silent plan9 terminal
> which will talk to a usb keyboard and mouse, and
> will drive an HDMI monitor at somthing like 1900x1200.
>
> Am I still stuck with x86 or is there an ARM solution these days?
>
> -Steve
>

Gumstix overo on a tobi board is a good candidate; we're working on
getting it going nicely at bap9ug. You get USB, ethernet, DVI-D, and
audio. As of now it's *booting* but I don't think graphics are quite
there yet. It's extremely tiny, though, which is a major benefit, and
it netboots just fine. As Erik pointed out elsewhere in the thread,
the Overo chips are NOT fast but hey, it's a Plan 9 terminal. Except
when you're compiling ghostscript (ugh), you'll probably never notice.


John