9p @ boot is what I made for bootloader. BIOS, PXE, MBR. Not much of a kernel is needed as one can flash "the" program for cluster nodes.


On Nov 18, 2016 11:57 AM, "Charlie Lin" <charlielin65@gmail.com> wrote:
My idea: implement a user-space filesystem to expose all EFI variables.
As for the bootloader, any ideas?

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 7:30 PM, Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net> wrote:
On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 07:21:14PM -0500, Charlie Lin wrote:
> Add one more: EFI support
> Also, can Plan 9 be booted on Open Firmware? (Used on at least Sun SPARC
> workstations)
>
> On Nov 16, 2016 5:27 PM, "Charlie Lin" <charlielin65@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Any plans for Plan 9 5th edition?
> >
> > My desires:
> > ISO-compliant C compiler and preprocessor
> > Port other programming languages (especially Go) to here
> > Start a source code repository
> > Port Git, SVN, Mercurial, et cetera to here
> >


These are great ideas, is there some central place you can write these
down so we don't lose track of our goals