Re: [9fans] ARM hardware and SATA

[Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>]

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Our use of plan9 was really incidental and was in support of our work on
Akaros. It was a tool we used to support our development environment, but
not a focus of development itself nor something we did development on
directly. We did contribute a few things back to 9legacy; some bug fixes
for the i218 driver where the NIC would lock up come to mind; we found a
few bugs in the 9pi USB stack that Richard fixed. I suppose that counts as
"improving" plan9.

Work on Akaros has stopped however, at least at Google.

Those that I know who use acme at Google are not, generally, writing web
services. Rather, they are working on the Go compiler and runtime. I
suppose it's possible that someone uses acme to write web services, but the
number of people doing that kind of thing is actually pretty small, even
though a lot of people think of Google as a "web" company. I dunno; I work
on kernels.

        - Dan C.


On Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 5:47 PM Juan Cuzmar <juan.cuzmar.s@gmail.com> wrote:

> Wow I'm surprised that people are still working on plan9 to
> develop things especially in google... If I could aso: what kind
> of things you develop with plan9?
>
> Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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
> > <lucio.dere@gmail.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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