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 14:58:39 -0500 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a1148cbea7cc985054198bb67 Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 5th Edition Topicbox-Message-UUID: ac59c944-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --001a1148cbea7cc985054198bb67 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 My mistake for hastiness: should we implement the filesystem in kernel or user space? On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Charlie Lin wrote: > 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 >>> >>> >> > --001a1148cbea7cc985054198bb67 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
My mistake for hastiness: should we implement the filesyst= em in kernel or user space?

On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Charlie Lin <ch= arlielin65@gmail.com> wrote:
Like efivarfs in the Linux kernel

On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 2:54 PM, Charlie Lin &l= t;charlielin65@= gmail.com> 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 <khm@sciops.net> wrote:
On We= d, 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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