From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: From: Lucio De Re Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 13:37:06 +0200 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 potential target ports (Was: PDP11 (Was: Re: what heavy negativity!)) Topicbox-Message-UUID: ed388130-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 10/12/18, hiro <23hiro@gmail.com> wrote: > > i think generally there's a lot of low-power linux stuff to chose > from, but once you plan to port plan9 to it, the fragmented nature of > the arm platforms becomes a problem. no free lunch :( > That is a fact, Hiro. I paid scant attention to that issue, perhaps being old enough to consider (wrongly, in the case of the Plan 9 user space) that graphics are not indispensable. I do recall, vaguely, an Olimex comment about graphics being more accessible, but I did not make a note, the little that stuck was that some hardware manufacturer had embraced a slightly better standard than VESA, or some such. There may be some hardware out there that does not have "closed" graphics. In a perfect world, that would be an opportunity, but it seems we're not there yet, Lucio.