From: "Paweł Lasek" <pawel.lasek@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] nice terminal...
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 14:21:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABhv03DAra2bdZ6iKFzN4Tb7hHPf0Uz1=Bn-1DYP98i6yQHnOQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJFUHyUB8AkAjTifAEpyE18COJ=r2wy_2Vox5fV+9oMK+=48NQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 13:32, Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was just thinking about this while drinking my coffee.
>
> A few perspective problems :
>
> 1. Broadcom drivers that are more locked down than Mr. Manson.
The 3D part is - simple framebuffer should work, afaik.
> 2. The boot process is insanely weird. It's boots by bootstrapping the GPU
> or something crazy.
Not really - it's just that the GPU contains the controller chip, and
the first stage bootloader is thus written in it. It will happily load
anything that has Linux-style header and resides on first,
FAT-formatted dos partition on the SD card, afaik.
> 3. No cd-rom drive to do a CD install. Probably easy to work around (I've
> only installed it this way)
See above :)
> Calvin
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Paweł Lasek
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-01 13:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-20 12:33 Nicolas Bercher
2012-03-20 13:32 ` Calvin Morrison
2012-03-20 21:34 ` Stephen Wiley
2012-04-01 13:21 ` Paweł Lasek [this message]
2012-03-20 14:10 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-03-20 14:19 ` Richard Miller
2012-03-20 15:52 ` erik quanstrom
2012-03-20 16:03 ` David Leimbach
2012-03-20 14:59 ` Nicolas Bercher
2012-04-22 15:08 ` Jeffrey Green
2012-04-22 15:17 ` Tristan
2012-04-22 15:22 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2012-04-22 15:47 ` Jeffrey Green
2012-04-22 16:22 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-04-22 17:40 ` Jeff Sickel
2012-04-22 18:02 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2012-04-22 23:22 ` Strake
2012-04-22 23:53 ` Joseph Stewart
2012-04-23 2:51 ` Bruce Ellis
2012-04-23 14:07 ` Jeffrey Green
2012-04-23 14:20 ` Matthew Veety
2012-04-22 21:30 ` Bakul Shah
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-05-06 22:15 Gorka Guardiola
2011-05-06 22:35 ` Jason Dreisbach
2011-05-07 1:32 ` Skip Tavakkolian
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