From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Welcome Plan 9 community
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 20:05:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9d76b2eb9c8c11c7e3ce4f18664ff3e8@mikro.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140302221648.GA1295@spark.home>
> But to begin with the main issue that brings me to write this message. I
> know that before I can do anything on Plan 9, I need hardware that
> cooperate with it. I've read the Supported PC Hardware[0] and
> realised that there is not much of it. Is there only one reliable motherboard
> (ASUS A8R32-MVP without NIC) that can run Plan9? I've also read there that
> there are several laptops pointed in this page without any additional
> comments in brackets. Does it mean that they are fully supported? I've
> also read that RaspberryPI can run Plan 9. I have RP rev. 2 so maybe it
> should be the hardware which I can use to start my Plan 9 adventure.
i've had good luck with plan 9 on a wide variety of hardware. i've probablly
run it on 20-30 motherboards in the last 5-6 years. everything from little
soekris to dell/ibm/hp blade servers. but there are a few little changes that
i made, esp. to the 82563 (intel gigabit) and ahci drivers.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-03 1:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-02 22:16 Szymon Olewniczak
2014-03-03 1:05 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2014-03-03 5:54 ` Grant Mather
2014-03-03 18:05 ` Peter Hull
2014-03-03 19:32 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2014-03-03 20:28 ` Alexandru Gheorghe
2014-03-03 20:37 ` erik quanstrom
2014-03-03 20:52 ` Alexandru Gheorghe
2014-03-03 20:53 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2014-03-03 22:19 ` Alexandru Gheorghe
2014-03-05 20:23 ` Alexandru Gheorghe
2014-03-05 20:43 ` Peter Hull
2014-03-05 20:48 ` Alexandru Gheorghe
2014-03-05 20:45 ` Alexandru Gheorghe
2014-03-05 20:46 ` Peter Hull
2014-03-03 21:50 ` Peter Hull
2014-03-03 21:06 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2014-03-03 17:15 Szymon Olewniczak
2014-03-03 17:23 ` Szymon Olewniczak
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