Re: [9fans] [GSOC] plan9 which arch code to use?

[Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com>]

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On 7 May 2014 09:38, Riddler <riddler876@gmail.com> wrote:

> Out of curiosity is there a reason that the patches for a 64bit install
> never ended up in the main plan9 codebase?


The full story is much more complicated, but briefly, the switch to 64 bits
offered a chance to revisit the kernel implementation,
but the version that was closest to plan 9 was incomplete on amd64, and
never released except for powerpc where most of the work was done,
and the other forks that were released for amd64 were more experimental
(eg, Nix). A year or two back a further attempt was made
to retrace and set out again, because so much old crud had got added back
in,
but that stalled when several of us ran out of time or got too busy. At the
time, none of us was interested in adding yet more unfinished
or unpolished software to the big cloudy bitbuckets.
I'm sure at least one of those will be back soon.

There was, however, a parallel effort to allow a more conventional licence,
which did finally prosper.

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