From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1339445686.14444.5.camel@localhost> References: <1339445686.14444.5.camel@localhost> From: John Floren Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:07:29 -0700 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [9fans] Mini PCs Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9c28227a-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Winston Weinert wrote: > On Sun, 2012-06-10 at 18:19 -0400, Comeau At9Fans wrote: >> * Raspberry Pi >> * Cotton Candy >> * Mele A1000 >> * MK802 > > Some other _pricier_ products to consider (and a larger variety of > integrated components): > * Beagleboard > * Beaglebone > * Pandaboard > * Pico-ITX formfactor x86 motherboard > Some of these should work already; /sys/src/9/omap/beagle seems to indicate that you can already boot a beagleboard, for instance. As for anything not based on the supported SoCs, well, until people stop sitting on ass saying "boy that would be a nice terminal" and actually start PORTING the damn thing, it'll never be more than Yet Another 120-message 9fans Thread. I got the Efika Smarttop through quite a bit of the early boot over the course of an afternoon, before finally getting pissed off at having to re-write an SD card every time I iterated the kernel. It shouldn't be *too* hard to get a minimally functional system, the code in /sys/src/9 is quite good. Oh, there's another thing, for the love of god don't buy a system that can't netboot, it's just not worth it. Or we could ignore all these and, in grand 9fans tradition, start talking about a port to some hardware platform that's been dead for over 5 years. SPARC64 et al are sorta played out by now, but I've got a PDP-11 just sitting around... john