From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <4F687917.5040305@yahoo.fr> From: =?UTF-8?B?UGF3ZcWCIExhc2Vr?= Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 14:21:33 +0100 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] nice terminal... Topicbox-Message-UUID: 73079ccc-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 13:32, Calvin Morrison wro= te: > 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 GP= U > 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 --=20 Pawe=C5=82 Lasek pawel.lasek@gmail.com pawel.lasek.08@aberdeen.ac.uk