From: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] amd64 port
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:01:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinm9qZjeBcGmUX2kVk-WOfjCkQ_cFY=Ckc9xL_+@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=0Q7Ks52puSARXhJgEt9mz7nkDaBaLPw6r016u@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
<vdharani@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> i think we could stress on a specific architecture (and aim to provide
> basic and improved support) based on these criteria:
>
> - mainline architecture
> - cheap and affordable both for companies and individuals (also,
> single board orders as well as bulk orders)
> - widely deployed and used
> - has future
> - availability of VM software (like VmWare, Parallels, etc) and
> ability to run at least on top of such facility
> - low power versions
>
> i guess amd64 is a definite win.
>
well, I'd say the best target for amd64 is qemu-system-x86_64 so we
spend minimal time on driver peculiarities and hardware nonsense, but
since I have zero time to work on it, I'll shut up :)
-eric
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-15 17:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-13 23:28 Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2010-10-13 23:42 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-10-13 23:54 ` John Floren
2010-10-14 4:17 ` David Leimbach
2010-10-15 5:29 ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2010-10-15 17:01 ` Eric Van Hensbergen [this message]
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