From: Nick LaForge <nicklaforge@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Mini PCs
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:38:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEE9J-VkH0n4D5XdjhTQz2+m+j6gvbF12LKm66ezGR3Xb4SBfA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN-HoCk3Xoy9L-iaab-=VhpMr24w014Vz5RVS+PYCrz9=ZO8rA@mail.gmail.com>
> sadly, the 10/100 ethernet is provided through a flakey usb hub
I think the 'cheap arm dev board' bandwagon will always suffer in this
regard, since the phones these SoCs were designed for don't even come
close to needing gbe
On 6/11/12, Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan <vdharani@gmail.com> wrote:
> what about teg2 for which geoff announced support recently?
>
> btw, i have two raspberry pi at home now. i would like to run plan9
> and inferno (at least emu) on it as soon as possible.
>
> dharani
>
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 2:07 PM, John Floren <john@jfloren.net> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Winston Weinert <winstonw@lavabit.com>
>> wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2012-06-10 at 18:19 -0400, Comeau At9Fans wrote:
>>>> * Raspberry Pi
>>>> * Cotton Candy
>>>> * Mele A1000
>>>> * MK802
>>>
>>> Some other _pricier_ products to consider (and a larger variety of
>>> integrated components):
>>> * Beagleboard
>>> * Beaglebone
>>> * Pandaboard
>>> * Pico-ITX formfactor x86 motherboard
>>>
>>
>> Some of these should work already; /sys/src/9/omap/beagle seems to
>> indicate that you can already boot a beagleboard, for instance. As for
>> anything not based on the supported SoCs, well, until people stop
>> sitting on ass saying "boy that would be a nice terminal" and actually
>> start PORTING the damn thing, it'll never be more than Yet Another
>> 120-message 9fans Thread.
>>
>> I got the Efika Smarttop through quite a bit of the early boot over
>> the course of an afternoon, before finally getting pissed off at
>> having to re-write an SD card every time I iterated the kernel. It
>> shouldn't be *too* hard to get a minimally functional system, the code
>> in /sys/src/9 is quite good. Oh, there's another thing, for the love
>> of god don't buy a system that can't netboot, it's just not worth it.
>>
>> Or we could ignore all these and, in grand 9fans tradition, start
>> talking about a port to some hardware platform that's been dead for
>> over 5 years. SPARC64 et al are sorta played out by now, but I've got
>> a PDP-11 just sitting around...
>>
>>
>> john
>>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-12 4:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-10 22:19 Comeau At9Fans
2012-06-11 14:03 ` Richard Miller
2012-06-11 15:25 ` Matthew Veety
[not found] ` <CA+4OWrw2gHmepYVWCPXFihFKOo4Eqew8_j1VnTCp+UQYON14DQ@mail.gmail.c>
2012-06-11 15:46 ` erik quanstrom
2012-06-15 18:38 ` Comeau At9Fans
2012-08-07 16:32 ` Nicolas Bercher
2012-06-11 16:08 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2012-06-12 6:41 ` rod
2012-06-15 18:41 ` Comeau At9Fans
2012-06-11 20:14 ` Winston Weinert
2012-06-11 21:07 ` John Floren
2012-06-11 21:15 ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2012-06-12 4:38 ` Nick LaForge [this message]
2012-06-12 4:49 ` John Floren
2012-06-12 5:05 ` Nick LaForge
2012-06-12 5:12 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-06-12 12:47 ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2012-06-12 13:48 ` David Leimbach
2012-06-12 14:01 ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2012-06-14 16:38 ` Stephen Wiley
2012-06-15 18:51 ` Comeau At9Fans
2012-06-12 13:29 ` hiro
2012-06-12 13:41 ` hiro
2012-06-13 5:37 ` Harri Haataja
2012-06-15 18:50 ` Comeau At9Fans
[not found] ` <CAEE9J-VkH0n4D5XdjhTQz2+m+j6gvbF12LKm66ezGR3Xb4SBfA@mail.gmail.c>
2012-06-12 4:51 ` erik quanstrom
2012-06-12 4:56 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-06-12 5:08 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-06-12 5:13 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-06-12 5:47 ` erik quanstrom
2012-06-12 12:25 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-06-12 14:03 ` erik quanstrom
2012-06-12 17:26 ` Bakul Shah
2012-06-12 18:35 ` erik quanstrom
2012-06-12 13:20 ` Wes Kussmaul
2012-06-14 10:25 ` Yaroslav
2012-06-12 8:49 ` Richard Miller
2012-06-15 18:45 ` Comeau At9Fans
2012-08-06 11:03 ` crazyespia
2012-08-06 14:01 ` Comeau At9Fans
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