Re: [9fans] Small Plan 9 Platforms

[Nick Owens <mischief@offblast.org>]

brian,

i have started work on porting 9front to
http://www.elinux.org/MIPS_Creator_CI20.

this board has quite a number of features, and might be useful for
education if the cost isn't prohibitive.

nick

On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 6:09 PM, Brian L. Stuart <blstuart@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> I'm teaching a special topics course this fall I'm
> calling Computing in the Small.  Right now, I'm
> leaning toward conducting it on a platform that
> runs Plan 9.  I'm looking for something based on
> ARM or MIPS and that has some useful connection
> to the external world in the form of GPIOs.  SPI,
> I2C, and analog I/O would be nice to have too.
> Obviously, the Raspberry Pi is a candidate.  What
> are some others?  I've seen some code in the
> source tree for the BBB.  Has anyone tried it out
> to see what is and isn't there?  How about the
> Banana Pi?  The SATA port on it is quite appealing.
> Some of the other options I've been looking at
> include the VIA APC Rock and Paper, the Phytec
> Cosmic, the CubieBoard, the Odroid, the Riotboard,
> and the Wandboard.  Has anyone done anything
> on porting Plan 9 to any of them?  Are there others
> I'm missing that would be good targets for such a class?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> BLS
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