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boundary="000000000000f19e4305997d901c" Topicbox-Policy-Reasoning: allow: sender is a member Topicbox-Message-UUID: c0922a0c-1cb9-11ea-9743-fdfa98374090 --000000000000f19e4305997d901c Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" We had 9legacy running on Intel NUCs at Google for our internal development. It worked well enough, though of course wasn't an ARM based machine. Getting it going was a little hacky, but not too bad. We were using raspberry pi's as terminals. I haven't looked in depth, but I suspect there's relatively little support for SATA interfaces in Richard's BCM code. Targeting something like the BananaPi W2 as a small server would probably be doable and the delta from Richard's code would be smaller than an ersatz port. - Dan C. On Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 12:02 PM Lucio De Re wrote: > I'd like suggestions for some hardware on which to run Plan 9, almost > certainly expandable SSD capacity will be a must (Venti service). > Price and quality will be the biggest factors, as always. > > Ideally, storage is where the value will reside, the actual processor > could be expendable. > > ARM would allow me to start with Richard Miller's release, which I > believe to be a very sound foundation. > > Thanks for any and all comments. > > Lucio. > > ------------------------------------------ > 9fans: 9fans > Permalink: > https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tfa3a09b0e78ea56b-M6bc9d051ece7ae7925fb6867 > Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription > --000000000000f19e4305997d901c Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
We had 9legacy running on Intel NUCs at Google for our in= ternal development. It worked well enough, though of course wasn't an A= RM based machine. Getting it going was a little hacky, but not too bad. We = were using raspberry pi's as terminals.

I haven't looked in depth, but I suspect there's rela= tively little support for SATA interfaces in Richard's BCM code. Target= ing something like the BananaPi W2 as a small server would probably be doab= le and the delta from Richard's code would be smaller than an ersatz po= rt.

=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0= =C2=A0 - Dan C.


On Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 12:= 02 PM Lucio De Re <lucio.dere@gm= ail.com> wrote:
I'd like= suggestions for some hardware on which to run Plan 9, almost
certainly expandable SSD capacity will be a must (Venti service).
Price and quality will be the biggest factors, as always.

Ideally, storage is where the value will reside, the actual processor
could be expendable.

ARM would allow me to start with Richard Miller's release, which I
believe to be a very sound foundation.

Thanks for any and all comments.

Lucio.

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