Re: [9fans] ARM hardware and SATA

[Juan Cuzmar <juan.cuzmar.s@gmail.com>]

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Ah I see.
Thanks Dan for answer me.


Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com> wrote:
> Our use of plan9 was really incidental and was in support of
> our work on Akaros. It was a tool we used to support our
> development environment, but not a focus of development itself
> nor something we did development on directly. We did contribute
> a few things back to 9legacy; some bug fixes for the i218
> driver where the NIC would lock up come to mind; we found a few
> bugs in the 9pi USB stack that Richard fixed. I suppose that
> counts as "improving" plan9.
> 
> Work on Akaros has stopped however, at least at Google.
> 
> Those that I know who use acme at Google are not, generally,
> writing web services. Rather, they are working on the Go
> compiler and runtime. I suppose it's possible that someone uses
> acme to write web services, but the number of people doing that
> kind of thing is actually pretty small, even though a lot of
> people think of Google as a "web" company. I dunno; I work on
> kernels.
> 
>         - Dan C.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 5:47 PM Juan Cuzmar
> <juan.cuzmar.s@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Wow I'm surprised that people are still working on plan9 to
> > develop things especially in google... If I could aso: what kind
> > of things you develop with plan9?
> >
> > Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > We had 9legacy running on Intel NUCs at Google for our internal
> > > development. It worked well enough, though of course wasn't an
> > > ARM based machine. Getting it going was a little hacky, but not
> > > too bad. We were using raspberry pi's as terminals.
> > >
> > > I haven't looked in depth, but I suspect there's relatively
> > > little support for SATA interfaces in Richard's BCM code.
> > > Targeting something like the BananaPi W2 as a small server
> > > would probably be doable and the delta from Richard's code
> > > would be smaller than an ersatz port.
> > >
> > >         - Dan C.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 12:02 PM Lucio De Re
> > > <lucio.dere@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'd like suggestions for some hardware on which to run Plan 9, almost
> > > > certainly expandable SSD capacity will be a must (Venti service).
> > > > Price and quality will be the biggest factors, as always.
> > > >
> > > > Ideally, storage is where the value will reside, the actual processor
> > > > could be expendable.
> > > >
> > > > ARM would allow me to start with Richard Miller's release, which I
> > > > believe to be a very sound foundation.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for any and all comments.
> > > >
> > > > Lucio.
> > >
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