Hi Brian,

Plan 9 works really well on a Raspberry Pi B for me. Haven't tried it on a RasPi 2 yet though.

I would be rather cautious about so called compatible products. I have yet to meet a product that is truly compatible and the quirks tend to take up a disproportionate amount of time to resolve. When you are trying to get a course together you have enough to contend with before getting caught out by incompatibilities.

Is there any reason you don't choose to just go with Raspberry Pi as is? After all, it is cheap and with lots of support.

On 8 August 2015 at 11:13, Nick Owens <mischief@offblast.org> wrote:

brian,

i have started work on porting 9front to
http://www.elinux.org/MIPS_Creator_CI20.

this board has quite a number of features, and might be useful for
education if the cost isn't prohibitive.

nick

On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 6:09 PM, Brian L. Stuart <blstuart@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> I'm teaching a special topics course this fall I'm
> calling Computing in the Small. Right now, I'm
> leaning toward conducting it on a platform that
> runs Plan 9. I'm looking for something based on
> ARM or MIPS and that has some useful connection
> to the external world in the form of GPIOs. SPI,
> I2C, and analog I/O would be nice to have too.
> Obviously, the Raspberry Pi is a candidate. What
> are some others? I've seen some code in the
> source tree for the BBB. Has anyone tried it out
> to see what is and isn't there? How about the
> Banana Pi? The SATA port on it is quite appealing.
> Some of the other options I've been looking at
> include the VIA APC Rock and Paper, the Phytec
> Cosmic, the CubieBoard, the Odroid, the Riotboard,
> and the Wandboard. Has anyone done anything
> on porting Plan 9 to any of them? Are there others
> I'm missing that would be good targets for such a class?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> BLS
>
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