If all you want to do is try plan9 out, you can install it in a VM such as qemu, virtualbox or vmware. If you like it enough that you want to contribute to it, it's probably better to start with developing user-level apps rather than dive straight into the kernel.
2010/12/14 Bodó Abel
<ab543210@gmail.com>
Greetings,
Again. If i understood the answer correctly (in which I'm not sure
because I couldn't figure out if it was about the official release
from 2002 or atom) many of the hardware I wish to use have no
compatibility with plan9. Then what should I do? I mean, if i have to
create my own drivers, where do I start? If this mailing list is not
the place to be for my questions (being too basic and annoying), just
say so, but I have really no other idea where to get help from (with
this problem of mine), so if that's the case, could you please give me
some advice about that (meaning where to get help)?
And about the foxconn L S-36, its some custom dell motherboard ripped
out of a factory setup hardware, and I guess I'll check the chipsets
in it, and ask about that when I'll have the chance to check it.
Still, thanks for your help
Abel A. Bodoo
> - intel SE7505vb2 motherboard (integrated ethernet ports, SATA etc.)
> ethernet should work. i'm not sure about the sata. early
intel sata was a problem.
> - ibm x335 (default hdd backplane /hot swap/, ethernet ports, nvidia
> quadro nvs280 (not integrated) )
> lsi 1068e sas not supported.
> tg3 ethernet not supported.
> - foxconn L S-36 (SATA, ethernet ports, etc.)
> i don't know what this is.
> - erik