From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1339445686.14444.5.camel@localhost> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:38:00 -0700 Message-ID: From: Nick LaForge To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [9fans] Mini PCs Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9d1c8b8a-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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 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 wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Winston Weinert >> 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 >> > >