Re: [9fans] Mini PCs

[Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan <vdharani@gmail.com>]

what about teg2 for which geoff announced support recently?

btw, i have two raspberry pi at home now. i would like to run plan9
and inferno (at least emu) on it as soon as possible.

dharani

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 2:07 PM, John Floren <john@jfloren.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Winston Weinert <winstonw@lavabit.com> 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
>