From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20161117003059.GA71119@wopr> From: Jules Merit Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 12:07:57 -0800 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a11446fa4cf1b2f054198dc6b Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 5th Edition Topicbox-Message-UUID: ac6970ba-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --001a11446fa4cf1b2f054198dc6b Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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" 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 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" 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 > > --001a11446fa4cf1b2f054198dc6b Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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 cl= uster nodes.


On Nov 18, 2016 1= 1:57 AM, "Charlie Lin" <charlielin65@gmail.com> wrote:
My idea: implement a user-space files= ystem to expose all EFI variables.
As for the bootloader, any idea= s?

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 7:30 PM, Kurt H Maier <khm@scio= ps.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 SPA= RC
> workstations)
>
> On Nov 16, 2016 5:27 PM, "Charlie Lin" <charlielin65@gmail.com> w= rote:
>
> > 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 writ= e these
down so we don't lose track of our goals



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