From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 21:02:39 -0600 From: "Ronald G. Minnich" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] First-timer help In-Reply-To: <20050721023425.CAMI4854.ibm57aec.bellsouth.net@p1.stuart.org> Message-ID: References: <20050721023425.CAMI4854.ibm57aec.bellsouth.net@p1.stuart.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6ce55ab6-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Brian L. Stuart wrote: > Actually, the xen patches are several months old. The Plan 9 kernel is > from June. Is it dependent on the version of xen I use? I think the > one that I'm running is 2.0.4. no, the problem was only in the Plan 9 kernel. My bad. by June, I am pretty sure "the fix was in". I can't get to sources right now, but will try later and get you a copy of the "right" code so you can check. > I'm looking forward to that. At that point, I'll probably be > able to justify booting into xen/Linux/Plan9 all the time. it's nice, it's how I run my laptop all the time now. I'm always Xen'ed up. I only let Linux have 256MB, and it works, as my window manager is now rio. > Do you have any inside knowledge on when 3.0 is likely to see the light > of day? it's out in -test form. It is still shaking quite a bit from aftershock. The Plan 9 port is still quite undone, however. ron