From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20161117003059.GA71119@wopr> References: <20161117003059.GA71119@wopr> From: Charlie Lin Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 14:54:40 -0500 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a1140603244ea34054198ad18 Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 5th Edition Topicbox-Message-UUID: ac50107a-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --001a1140603244ea34054198ad18 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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 > > --001a1140603244ea34054198ad18 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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 <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> 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 writ= e these
down so we don't lose track of our goals


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