From: Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 C compiler for Xtensa CPUs
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2019 15:53:59 -0700 [thread overview]
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I'm not sure if the effort would be worth it; but if you add support for
esp32, I think it would be better for the os to be something like the one
you had in kencc for AVR (*) or possibly Russ' libtask, rather than Plan 9.
Staying with FreeRTOS would need removal of GCC specific things from OS and
dealing with lots of drivers in C++.
The Cortex-M based mpus (e.g. Teensy 4 with Cortex M7 @ 600MHz) seem more
appropriate for an "embedded" Plan 9.
(*) for those who have not seen it, it is here:
% ls -l /n/sources/contrib/forsyth/avr*
--rw-rw-r-- M 518 bootes sys 251227 Sep 4 2011
/n/sources/contrib/forsyth/avr.9gz
On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 2:36 PM Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Since the resources are small if not tiny, a little systems analysis and
> design is probably needed, but it looks like a bit of fun, until the
> inevitable moment of "why am I here?".
>
> On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 4:50 PM Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The device I've got is ESP32-WROOM-32. None of the boards I've seen that
>> use it bother with external memory,
>> so memory is limited, especially the way it's partitioned.
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 3:50 PM Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The ESP32 has got several MMUs. The characteristics are different
>>> depending on the part that a given MMU accesses (flash, ROM, SRAM, external
>>> memory).
>>> Some things are accessed using Memory Protection Units instead, which
>>> control access by Process ID, but don't do mapping. Others including some
>>> of the SRAMs are accessed through
>>> an MMU that can do virtual to physical mapping. The MMUs for internal
>>> SRAM0 and 2 choose protection for a given physical page as none, one or all
>>> of PIDs 2 to 7, with the virtual address that
>>> maps to it. PIDs 0 and 1 can access everything. PID 0 can execute
>>> privileged instructions.
>>> A large chunk of SRAM (SRAM 1) has only Memory Protection and no
>>> translation. The external memory MMU is the most general (most
>>> conventional).
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 3:19 PM Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> esp32 doesn’t have an mmu, right?
>>>>
>>>> On Jul 26, 2019, at 03:30, Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I was thinking of doing that since I've got an ESP-32 for some reason
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 7:38 AM Cyber Fonic <cyberfonic@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I was reading the post Why Didn't Plan 9 Succeed
>>>>> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20527650> on Hacker News.
>>>>>
>>>>> Made me think that Plan 9 for IoT system of systems could be viable.
>>>>>
>>>>> To that end, ESP-32 modules look capable enough to run Plan 9, but is
>>>>> there a Plan 9 C compiler for Xtensa ISA CPUs?
>>>>>
>>>>>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-09 22:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-26 6:37 Cyber Fonic
2019-07-26 10:02 ` Rodrigo G. López
2019-07-26 10:30 ` Charles Forsyth
2019-07-26 12:04 ` Rodrigo G. López
2019-07-26 12:12 ` Cyber Fonic
2019-07-26 15:23 ` Charles Forsyth
2019-07-27 9:16 ` Anthony Martin
2019-07-27 11:10 ` Richard Miller
2019-07-27 16:29 ` Anthony Martin
2019-08-07 0:22 ` Charles Forsyth
2019-08-07 8:07 ` Lucio De Re
2019-08-09 14:17 ` Bakul Shah
2019-08-09 14:50 ` Charles Forsyth
2019-08-09 15:50 ` Charles Forsyth
2019-08-09 21:34 ` Charles Forsyth
2019-08-09 21:48 ` Shane Morris
2019-08-09 22:51 ` Bakul Shah
2019-08-09 22:53 ` Skip Tavakkolian [this message]
2019-08-10 9:09 ` Cyber Fonic
2019-08-10 9:15 ` Shane Morris
2019-08-10 16:18 ` Charles Forsyth
2019-08-11 18:59 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2019-08-18 14:10 ` Charles Forsyth
2019-08-18 14:28 ` Richard Miller
2019-08-19 11:51 ` Cyber Fonic
2019-08-19 14:52 ` [9fans] Plan 9 security Ethan Gardener
2019-08-20 13:13 ` Cyber Fonic
2019-08-20 13:28 ` Don A. Bailey
2019-08-23 18:45 ` Ethan Gardener
2019-08-23 19:41 ` Don Bailey
2019-07-26 13:16 [9fans] Plan 9 C compiler for Xtensa CPUs cinap_lenrek
2023-12-04 23:20 David Boddie
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