From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2579e8.2258e2ff.jYph.mx@tumtum.plumbweb.net> References: <4F687917.5040305@yahoo.fr> <2579e8.2258e2ff.jYph.mx@tumtum.plumbweb.net> Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 11:22:43 -0400 Message-ID: From: "Devon H. O'Dell" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7b339db5d54a3c04be46171d Subject: Re: [9fans] nice terminal... Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7a3a99ae-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --047d7b339db5d54a3c04be46171d Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 It's not easy even if you make appliances and sell a good number of their NICs. At a company where I worked a few years ago, we had a performance problem and it took us months to get any datasheets. When that didn't help, it took us about the same amount of time to get errata. It is not fun. --dho On Apr 22, 2012 11:19 AM, "Tristan" <9p-st@imu.li> wrote: > > So, a month has gone by and a slice of raspberry pi is looking more and > > more tempting these days, especially since "official" delivery seems to > > have happened last week. Has anyone yet chanced an introduction of one > > to plan9? I would guess the initial booting would be the biggest > > hurdle. > > Not to stop anyone, but I hear getting documentation from Broadcom is a > bit of a painful project all in itself. > > > --047d7b339db5d54a3c04be46171d Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

It's not easy even if you make appliances and sell a good number of = their NICs. At a company where I worked a few years ago, we had a performan= ce problem and it took us months to get any datasheets. When that didn'= t help, it took us about the same amount of time to get errata.

It is not fun.

--dho

On Apr 22, 2012 11:19 AM, "Tristan" &l= t;9p-st@imu.li> wrote:
> So, a month has gone by and a slice of raspberry pi is looking more an= d
> more tempting these days, especially since "official" delive= ry seems to
> have happened last week. Has anyone yet chanced an introduction of one=
> to plan9? I would guess the initial booting would be the biggest
> hurdle.

Not to stop anyone, but I hear getting documentation from Broadcom is a
bit of a painful project all in itself.


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