From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Vester Thacker <vester.thacker@gmail.com>,
Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] pc boot and ether drivers
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 09:23:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0411180921040.8044@linux.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32a656c204111720266056314c@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Vester Thacker wrote:
> I don't advocate plan9.ini being depreciated, only
> that it should not be required initially.
I'd like to deprecate it ... if only to get rid of the need for 9fat.
Also, the various loaders can handle the file systems that the OSes use.
Grub parses ext2, for example, which seems gross (ok, it's gross) but is
also VERY handy.
9load can't handle plan 9 file systems at all. It would be nicer (for me
anyway) if the plan 9 loader could parse plan 9 file systems, and I don't
see an easy way to do that with anything but a plan 9 kernel and the file
systems it supports set up as the loader image. Again, I do this now here
at LANL, and it is pretty nice.
ron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-18 16:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-17 1:55 Tim Newsham
2004-11-17 2:09 ` geoff
2004-11-17 2:11 ` jmk
2004-11-18 0:54 ` Vester Thacker
2004-11-18 1:28 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2004-11-18 2:32 ` Karl Magdsick
2004-11-18 2:43 ` geoff
2004-11-18 3:09 ` Tim Newsham
2004-11-18 3:16 ` geoff
2004-11-18 3:54 ` Tim Newsham
2004-11-18 4:01 ` Russ Cox
2004-11-18 4:53 ` jmk
2004-11-18 6:04 ` Vester Thacker
2004-11-18 10:39 ` C H Forsyth
2004-11-18 11:45 ` Vester Thacker
2004-11-18 7:10 ` geoff
2004-11-18 4:16 ` bs
2004-11-18 3:40 ` Russ Cox
2004-11-18 4:26 ` Vester Thacker
2004-11-18 4:34 ` Vester Thacker
2004-11-18 16:23 ` Ronald G. Minnich [this message]
2004-11-18 15:08 ` Ronald G. Minnich
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