From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Message-id: From: Pietro Gagliardi To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-reply-to: <775b8d190808221909g3bfc7886u31a9786e53d25cfc@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:14:28 -0400 References: <4f34febc0808221310tfd4c0d0w523a01cad11a7eef@mail.gmail.com> <5fe57dd57eb2497d8edc8f6af8da5d99@9netics.com> <775b8d190808221909g3bfc7886u31a9786e53d25cfc@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Porting Plan 9 to the TI Beagle Board Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0548ddd4-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I'd like to see Plan 9 being run on a portable device, and up until now I thought the only ways were to get an iPAQ (but are newer models compatible?) or to port 9vx to the iPhone (but does Apple's license allow that?). Can we use this board to make an alternative - the new bitsy? This seems very feasible, since the board is only 3 inches long (and I believe square). How would we get a three-button mouse to be emulated? On Aug 22, 2008, at 10:09 PM, Bruce Ellis wrote: > I've just discussed this with Charles. Vita has a thumb compiler (tc) > which works with 5l. > > The Cortex-M3 is thumb-2 only so these two aren't quite sufficient, > but a flag will help. > > brucee > > On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 6:42 AM, Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com> > wrote: >> this is what brucee said a while back about an ARM Cortex-M3 >> based device: >> >>> I found the data sheet for the >>> Cortex chip if someone needs it. A bit of a challenge for an arm >>> port >>> but it's fun indeed. >> >> the "fun" refers to this device: >> >> http://www.stm32circle.com >> >>> In the recent NeXT thread Eric mentioned the TI Beagle Board >>> (http://beagleboard.org/). It's quite neat: $150 for a 3" x 3" PCB >>> w/ a 600 MHz ARM core, HD capable video, and SD card, audio, serial, >>> USB and DVI ports. The documentation seems fairly complete, >>> although >>> according the mailing list there are issues about how much of the >>> video and DSP interfaces will be documented. Hardware-wise it seems >>> it only needs Ethernet to make it capable of being a Plan 9 >>> terminal, >>> although in theory that can be added via USB. >>> >>> How much would be involved in porting Plan 9 to it? Would the >>> current >>> Plan 9 ARM compiler be up to the task? >>> >>> John >> >> >> >