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From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] porting from vs. porting to Plan 9
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Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:17:32 -0600
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On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Brantley Coile wrote:

> In the early 1980's, you folks in the labs trashed the VAX
> kernel and replaced it with 4.1a (or c or something).  You
> poked around in the kernel, trowing away some stuff, adding
> new stuff like streams and netb and stuff.  On top you
> ran very clean stuff.  This was done because you saw
> that for that hardware the BSD kernel was more useful.

If you look in v9fs there is a toy thing I had in there called 9sys, which
was a first cut at a system call interface in linux to plan 9 system
calls. It was going to look like Plan 9 outside, but ride on top of linux
kernel internals, and use v9fs for 9p transport.  Step 1 was to get the
Plan 9 system calls in. Step two was to remove the Linux system calls.

I started this before Plan 9 license got fixed, and stopped it at that
time.

I'd still rather work with a real plan 9 kernel. There's so much baggage
in Linux I don't want to deal with. I would rather put my efforts into
making plan 9 a bigger deal.

ron