From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] why do we need 9load?
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 23:18:07 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0309212313220.25353-100000@pink.lanl.gov> (raw)
OK, I just a little while back RTFM (well, Andrey Read The FM, and said
"Ron, why don't you ever R The FM", so I did) and noticed /dev/reboot.
Hey, plan 9 can reboot Plan 9 kernels. Hey, the code is really slick. Why
can't I write code this good any more? Too old? Time for me to move into
management or something?
So now I'm wondering, after spending a few months jiggering 9load, why do
we need it? Could we use Plan 9 to boot Plan 9? It seems like it ought to
be possible, and would remove the burden of keeping 9load up to date
(which was a bit of work for the Geodes and CF).
Seems to me I could load Plan 9 from flash, and then just have it load the
real kernel we want.
Inquiring minds, minds which on rare occasions RTFM, want to know. What
I'd really like to do is test this out on EPIA, the currently really cool
cheapo mobo.
ron
next reply other threads:[~2003-09-22 5:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-22 5:18 Ronald G. Minnich [this message]
2003-09-22 5:22 ` Russ Cox
2003-09-22 5:25 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2003-09-22 17:52 ` jmk
2003-09-23 15:14 ` ron minnich
2003-09-22 6:09 C H Forsyth
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