From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20161117003059.GA71119@wopr> From: Charlie Lin Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 14:57:14 -0500 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a11377e187708e8054198b65f Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 5th Edition Topicbox-Message-UUID: ac54db5a-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --001a11377e187708e8054198b65f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Like efivarfs in the Linux kernel On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 2:54 PM, Charlie Lin wrote: > My idea: implement a user-space filesystem to expose all EFI variables. > As for the bootloader, any ideas? > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 7:30 PM, Kurt H Maier wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 07:21:14PM -0500, Charlie Lin wrote: >> > Add one more: EFI support >> > Also, can Plan 9 be booted on Open Firmware? (Used on at least Sun SPARC >> > workstations) >> > >> > On Nov 16, 2016 5:27 PM, "Charlie Lin" wrote: >> > >> > > Any plans for Plan 9 5th edition? >> > > >> > > My desires: >> > > ISO-compliant C compiler and preprocessor >> > > Port other programming languages (especially Go) to here >> > > Start a source code repository >> > > Port Git, SVN, Mercurial, et cetera to here >> > > >> >> >> These are great ideas, is there some central place you can write these >> down so we don't lose track of our goals >> >> > --001a11377e187708e8054198b65f Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Like efivarfs in the Linux kernel

On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 2:54 PM,= Charlie Lin <charlielin65@gmail.com> wrote:
My idea: implement a user-spa= ce filesystem to expose all EFI variables.
As for the bootloader, = any ideas?

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 7:30 PM,= Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net> wrote:
On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 07:21:14PM -0500, Charlie Lin wrote= :
> Add one more: EFI support
> Also, can Plan 9 be booted on Open Firmware? (Used on at least Sun SPA= RC
> workstations)
>
> On Nov 16, 2016 5:27 PM, "Charlie Lin" <charlielin65@gmail.com> w= rote:
>
> > Any plans for Plan 9 5th edition?
> >
> > My desires:
> > ISO-compliant C compiler and preprocessor
> > Port other programming languages (especially Go) to here
> > Start a source code repository
> > Port Git, SVN, Mercurial, et cetera to here
> >


These are great ideas, is there some central place you can writ= e these
down so we don't lose track of our goals



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