Been there, done that. Not a line of text saying why 9atom appeared nor why the changes are not merged back into plan9.

2011/2/13 Sergey Zhilkin <szhilkin@gmail.com>
Hello ! :)

Go to the http://www.quanstro.net/plan9/9atom/ and read the few lines of text.



On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Eugene Gorodinsky <e.gorodinsky@gmail.com> wrote:
This question has been bugging me for some time and I haven't found any discussions on the matter. It seems that at least the devices support could go into the original plan9 kernel. What's the reason for having a fork? 



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Жилкин Сергей
With best regards
Zhilkin Sergey