From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: From: Stanley Lieber Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 21:54:08 -0600 Message-ID: To: lucio@proxima.alt.za, Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Forks of Plan 9 (Was: 9vx instability) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 45ce7dac-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Lucio De Re wrote: > Out of curiosity: 9front makes high claims about device drivers, are > these compatible with Plan 9 (and NIX)? =C2=A0If so, is there a list? A handful of device drivers have been written from scratch. Some devices started working when their PCI IDs were added to existing drivers. Most of 9front's drivers will probably work with any Plan 9 (I know Erik has adopted at least the BCM57xx driver for 9atom). I'm not sure how much AC97, HDA and SB16/ESS rely upon 9front's changes to how audio is handled; cinap should be able to answer audio related questions. Wacom WACF004/WACF008 support is provided by a userland program that relies upon a small change to the serial port driver. The following page is a fairly complete list of 9front's new features: http://code.google.com/p/plan9front/wiki/features while this page describes the hardware that is currently seeing the most testing: http://code.google.com/p/plan9front/wiki/KnownWorkingHardware -sl