From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 20:05:33 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <9d76b2eb9c8c11c7e3ce4f18664ff3e8@mikro.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: <20140302221648.GA1295@spark.home> References: <20140302221648.GA1295@spark.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Welcome Plan 9 community Topicbox-Message-UUID: c12efb6a-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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