From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20161117003059.GA71119@wopr> From: hiro <23hiro@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 23:26:51 +0100 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 5th Edition Topicbox-Message-UUID: ac6e7880-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 for 5th edition i wanna see a turing machine where the tape is exported through a file server, it should support jumping to arbitrary times via a ctl file. that way we can solve complex problems very easily from simple rc scripts. for example: echo inf > turing/time/ctl; cat turing/tape On 11/18/16, Charlie Lin wrote: > My mistake for hastiness: should we implement the filesystem in kernel or > user space? > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Charlie Lin > wrote: > >> Like efivarfs in the Linux kernel >> >> On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 2:54 PM, 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 >>>> >>>> >>> >> >