Rebuild 9atom?

[Benjamin Huntsman <BHuntsman@mail2.cu-portland.edu>]

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Is anyone here still running 9atom?  (Or is 9front the only variant anyone uses anymore?)

With some work I got 9atom installed from the USB image into a VMware VM, using the 9paed kernel.  However, I ran into a few issues:

- Both the 386 PAE and amd64 kernels seem to recognize the VMware SATA controller, neither recognizes the virtual disk attached.  The 386 PAE kernel boots just fine with the disk attached as IDE.  The amd64 kernel as supplied doesn't have IDE disk support.  I tried to add it back in but for whatever reason it still doesn't work.

- Both kernels boot from the USB key just fine.  However, regardless of booted from disk or from USB, both seem to not idle the CPU, so VMware throws a high CPU use alarm for the VM.  The "stock" Plan 9 uses very little resources on VMware.  Does anyone know why that is, or where to look to investigate that behavior?

- Something is different between the delivered kernels and the sources.  At least for 9paed.  Doing nothing other than rebuilding the sources results in a kernel that panics just before the boot args prompt.

Aside from those things I'm really excited to have 9atom running in a VM, even if I'm really late to the party!  Unfortunately the rebuild issue means I can't get a CPU kernel built and booted.

As a side note, it also boots and runs fine on my X1 Carbon (Gen1), which is a nice machine, but sadly the TrackPoint doesn't work, only the touchpad, and I really hate the X1's touchpad.

Anyway, thanks all!

-Ben


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