From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <946b13a27fb5903bebb050afe1f21089@lilly.quanstro.net> References: <1a3157d28f8065b3a7072365eb88e464@hamnavoe.com> <946b13a27fb5903bebb050afe1f21089@lilly.quanstro.net> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 21:36:56 -0800 Message-ID: From: Skip Tavakkolian To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a1134fc3a92abb705082f99bd Subject: Re: [9fans] running plan9 : an ideal setup? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2bf7f550-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --001a1134fc3a92abb705082f99bd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 i'm a bit paranoid about ether frames jumping the switch somehow, but i guess that's as likely as local snooping while tftping the boot image that has the nvram with creds. On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 5:57 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Tue Nov 18 17:10:59 EST 2014, skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com wrote: > > > i have two 9picpu's. they tftp-boot from the auth+fs. the SD is used for > > boot loading and the nvram partition. setting up the nvram without a > > console is tricky; i thought i'd mention it here in case others run into > it. > > why not use cec(1) from 9atom? this completely solves the console issue > without requiring any expensive or uncommon hardware. > > - erik > > --001a1134fc3a92abb705082f99bd Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
i'm a bit paranoid about ether frames jumping the swit= ch somehow, but i guess that's as likely as local snooping while tftpin= g the boot image that has the nvram with creds.

On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 5:57 PM, erik q= uanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
On Tue Nov 18 17:10:59 EST 2014, skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com wrote= :

> i have two 9picpu's. they tftp-boot from the auth+fs. the SD is us= ed for
> boot loading and the nvram partition. setting up the nvram without a > console is tricky; i thought i'd mention it here in case others ru= n into it.

why not use cec(1) from 9atom?=C2=A0 this completely solves the cons= ole issue
without requiring any expensive or uncommon hardware.

- erik


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