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From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] [GSOC] plan9 which arch code to use?
Date: Thu,  8 May 2014 07:56:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c514214fead7faeb934e53c945316814@proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <631a67d68fe5ca99316efb4af2c21156@ladd.quanstro.net>

> would be nice to put all the hardware support together.

That would be wonderful.  But it does require resources to deal with
incompatibilities as well as different perception of value.  My angle
her is that I'm mostly working with obsolete equiopment and I am
extremely reluctant to watch Plan 9 drop support for the hardware I
have in favour of hardware I cannot afford.

I can see how one would approach this problem in a fair manner, but I
appreciate that the cost would be higher.  For example, I'm using AC97
audio on this workstation, after putting some trouble into fitting it
into the Bell Labs distribution (nothing much, in fact, still...).
Now, this is incompatible with the original Soundblaster stuff and no
one seems to care to deal with the incompatibilities.  That's where
the community needs to be encouraged to take on low-benefit projects.

++L





  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-08  5:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 89+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-07 18:29 sl
2014-05-07 18:48 ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-08  5:56   ` lucio [this message]
2014-05-08  8:58     ` cinap_lenrek
2014-05-08 11:20       ` lucio
2014-05-08 12:07         ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-08 12:46           ` lucio
2014-05-08 13:15             ` Charles Forsyth
2014-05-08 13:48               ` Kurt H Maier
2014-05-08 14:07                 ` lucio
2014-05-08 14:04               ` lucio
2014-05-08 14:15                 ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-08 14:51                   ` lucio
2014-05-08 14:56                     ` Charles Forsyth
2014-05-08 15:16                       ` lucio
2014-05-08 10:55     ` erik quanstrom
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-05-08 13:45 erik quanstrom
2014-05-08 13:55 ` Kurt H Maier
2014-05-08 16:35   ` Jeremy Jackins
2014-05-08 17:16     ` Kurt H Maier
2014-05-08 17:47       ` Jeremy Jackins
2014-05-07 23:37 sl
2014-05-07 23:29 sl
2014-05-07 23:42 ` andrey mirtchovski
2014-05-07 22:36 sl
2014-05-07 21:38 sl
2014-05-07 22:32 ` Charles Forsyth
2014-05-07 22:39   ` Bakul Shah
2014-05-08  1:38   ` Kurt H Maier
2014-05-08  8:41     ` Charles Forsyth
2014-05-08 14:06     ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-08 14:14       ` balaji
2014-05-08 14:20         ` Charles Forsyth
2014-05-07 22:46 ` Anthony Sorace
2014-05-07 23:01 ` Charles Forsyth
2014-05-07 23:51   ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-07 20:56 sl
2014-05-07 21:17 ` Anthony Sorace
2014-05-07 21:33   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2014-05-08 11:57     ` lucio
2014-05-08 12:03       ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-08 12:39         ` lucio
2014-05-07 19:57 sl
2014-05-07 20:06 ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-07 20:11   ` Jacob Todd
2014-05-07 20:19     ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2014-05-08 12:11       ` lucio
2014-05-07 18:56 sl
2014-05-07 19:53 ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-07  1:14 sl
2014-05-06 21:00 yan cui
2014-05-06 21:33 ` cinap_lenrek
2014-05-06 21:48   ` yan cui
2014-05-06 21:47 ` Charles Forsyth
2014-05-06 21:53   ` yan cui
2014-05-06 21:56   ` Charles Forsyth
2014-05-06 21:59     ` Charles Forsyth
2014-05-06 22:02       ` cinap_lenrek
2014-05-06 22:05       ` Charles Forsyth
2014-05-07  5:14         ` lucio
2014-05-07  5:38           ` David du Colombier
2014-05-07  6:59             ` lucio
2014-05-07  8:38               ` Riddler
2014-05-07  8:59                 ` Charles Forsyth
2014-05-07  9:05             ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-07  9:10               ` Charles Forsyth
2014-05-07  9:16                 ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-07  9:42                 ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-07  9:23               ` David du Colombier
2014-05-07  9:25                 ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-07  9:31             ` David du Colombier
2014-05-07 11:13               ` lucio
2014-05-07 11:30                 ` Charles Forsyth
2014-05-07 14:36                 ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-07 17:51                   ` lucio
2014-05-07 18:22                     ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-08  5:39                       ` lucio
2014-05-07  8:45           ` Charles Forsyth
2014-05-07  9:12             ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-07  9:20               ` Charles Forsyth
2014-05-07  9:21                 ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-07 12:59                 ` Kurt H Maier
2014-05-07 13:36                   ` Charles Forsyth
2014-05-07 14:39                     ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-06 22:09 ` Kurt H Maier
2014-05-07  0:40 ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-07  1:01   ` Charles Forsyth
2014-05-07  1:12     ` Kurt H Maier
2014-05-07  1:39       ` Charles Forsyth

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