Re: [9fans] 9p on Yeeloong (gNewSense Linux)

Re: [9fans] 9p on Yeeloong (gNewSense Linux)

[Akshat Kumar]

This seems very much like the Acer Aspire One - both in design and
features (and more people seem to have this than the Yeeloong).  Do
you notice any outstanding differences (other than Linux distrib -
Acer runs Linpus, Yeeloong runs one of several choices)?
Granted, the Yeeloong has a nice flowery print.

ak

Re: [9fans] 9p on Yeeloong (gNewSense Linux)

[lucio]

> Do
> you notice any outstanding differences

Well, Intel Atom versus Loongson 2f seems like a significant
difference.  I don't know enough about the i386 and less about the
MIPS R4000 the Loongson is based on, but I know that I haven't yet
found a CPU architecture I dislike more then the Intel i386.

++L

Re: [9fans] 9p on Yeeloong (gNewSense Linux)

[Richard Miller]

> lucio@proxima.alt.za:

> but I know that I haven't yet
> found a CPU architecture I dislike more then the Intel i386

Ever tried the 6502?

Re: [9fans] 9p on Yeeloong (gNewSense Linux)

[lucio]

> i don't know if this helps, but this works for me:
> 	# mount -t 9p -o proto'='tcp,name'='root 204.178.31.8 sources

Doesn't complain about the protocol, it returns without any messages.
I'm now waiting for the result of a directory listing (slow link,
traffic shaped on top of a none-too-stable WiFi connection).

You don't need quotes around the "="s, and a naked "sources" seems
like a recipe for failure.  But don't think I'm not thrilled that it
seems to work!

Thank you.

++L

Re: [9fans] 9p on Yeeloong (gNewSense Linux)

[erik quanstrom]

> You don't need quotes around the "="s, and a naked "sources" seems
> like a recipe for failure.  But don't think I'm not thrilled that it
> seems to work!

you do if the shell you are using is rc.  admittedly, this would have
looked better
	# mount -t 9p -o 'proto=tcp,name=root' 204.178.31.8 sources
"sources" is a file name; it's the directory on which
to mount.  i've never known any shell on any os to require quoting
of file names consisting of [a-z]+.  though i'm sure this illustrates
my ignorance of esoteric and difficult oses.

- erik

Re: [9fans] 9p on Yeeloong (gNewSense Linux)

[lucio]

> i've never known any shell on any os to require quoting
> of file names consisting of [a-z]+.  though i'm sure this illustrates
> my ignorance of esoteric and difficult oses.

No, the leading "/" is recommended, or the full path, my choice of
adjective was unfortunate.  And I forgot you may have been using "rc",
I never really got the knack of using "rc" without RIO support, at
least not in the last ten years.  I used to use Byron's "rc" together
with "-" and "--", but that was a long, long time ago, before I got
hooked on Plan 9.

++L

PS: I have successfully listed the "root" on "sources".  Thanks again,
Erik.  I shan't have a need to pester EVH, although from him I'd like
to know the host from which the new v9fs can be "git"ted.  And for
anyone who cares, I still haven't broken P9P on the MIPS platform and
now v9fs works too (give or take authentication, it seems).

[9fans] 9p on Yeeloong (gNewSense Linux)

[lucio]

The Yeeloong is a Chinese netbook <http://lemote.com/> based on a MIPS
cpu.  My eventual target is to port Plan 9 to it and on the way there
I have a tentative version of P9P running on it without any
troublesome issues.

I can't however get 9P working.  The protocol module can be installed,
but mount(8) doesn't recognise 9p as a mount type.  I don't have the
entire sources to gNewSense available and I'm not sure what I should
be looking for.  I have successfully compiled a 64-bit Linux kernel:

Linux speckle.phyrql.alt.za 2.6.30 #10 Sun Jun 28 13:28:36 SAST 2009 mips64 GNU/Linux

from the sources released by Lemote.

Suggestions?

++L

Re: [9fans] 9p on Yeeloong (gNewSense Linux)

[ron minnich]

cat /proc/filesystems

Re: [9fans] 9p on Yeeloong (gNewSense Linux)

[lucio]

> cat /proc/filesystems

Returns

	nodev 9p

but "mount -t 9p" returns "Protocol not supported".  Is the problem
not within "mount"?

++L

Re: [9fans] 9p on Yeeloong (gNewSense Linux)

[erik quanstrom]

On Mon Jun 29 04:52:00 EDT 2009, lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote:
> > cat /proc/filesystems
>
> Returns
>
> 	nodev 9p
>
> but "mount -t 9p" returns "Protocol not supported".  Is the problem
> not within "mount"?

i don't know if this helps, but this works for me:
	# mount -t 9p -o proto'='tcp,name'='root 204.178.31.8 sources


- erik

Re: [9fans] 9p on Yeeloong (gNewSense Linux)

[Eric Van Hensbergen]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:49 AM, <lucio@proxima.alt.za> wrote:
>> cat /proc/filesystems
>
> Returns
>
>        nodev 9p
>
> but "mount -t 9p" returns "Protocol not supported".  Is the problem
> not within "mount"?
>

There are actually several modules which work together to provide 9p,
there is the 9p file system, the 9p network module (which includes as
a default the socket transport), and then additional transport plugins
(for KVM, infiniband, etc.)  Its possible you have the file system
module, but not the network module -- however, I thought the
dependencies have been setup to fix that for some time.  The best
thing to do is to turn on debug with your mount and look at the
/var/log/messages.  Linux errno error codes don't give the best error
and protocol not supported could actually mean one of several things,
the /var/log/messages with debug on will clarify the problem.  So add
-o debug=0xffff to your mount line and post the /var/log/messages
output and we'll see what we can do to help you.

Thanks,
    -eric

Re: [9fans] 9p on Yeeloong (gNewSense Linux)

[Skip Tavakkolian]

shot in the dark: are you root?

>> cat /proc/filesystems
>
> Returns
>
> 	nodev 9p
>
> but "mount -t 9p" returns "Protocol not supported".  Is the problem
> not within "mount"?
>
> ++L

Re: [9fans] 9p on Yeeloong (gNewSense Linux)

[Uriel]

The standard Unix mount command sucks (but then, so does v9fs, but
that is another story), use sqweek's wonderful 9mount command that
will make your life much less miserable in the dark world of Linux:
http://sqweek.dnsdojo.org/code/9mount/

Peace

uriel

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 6:55 AM, <lucio@proxima.alt.za> wrote:
> The Yeeloong is a Chinese netbook <http://lemote.com/> based on a MIPS
> cpu.  My eventual target is to port Plan 9 to it and on the way there
> I have a tentative version of P9P running on it without any
> troublesome issues.
>
> I can't however get 9P working.  The protocol module can be installed,
> but mount(8) doesn't recognise 9p as a mount type.  I don't have the
> entire sources to gNewSense available and I'm not sure what I should
> be looking for.  I have successfully compiled a 64-bit Linux kernel:
>
> Linux speckle.phyrql.alt.za 2.6.30 #10 Sun Jun 28 13:28:36 SAST 2009 mips64 GNU/Linux
>
> from the sources released by Lemote.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> ++L
>
>
>

Re: [9fans] 9p on Yeeloong (gNewSense Linux)

[Uriel]

Er, that was meant to be the standard *Lunix* mount command.

uriel

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Uriel<uriel99@gmail.com> wrote:
> The standard Unix mount command sucks (but then, so does v9fs, but
> that is another story), use sqweek's wonderful 9mount command that
> will make your life much less miserable in the dark world of Linux:
> http://sqweek.dnsdojo.org/code/9mount/
>
> Peace
>
> uriel
>
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 6:55 AM, <lucio@proxima.alt.za> wrote:
>> The Yeeloong is a Chinese netbook <http://lemote.com/> based on a MIPS
>> cpu.  My eventual target is to port Plan 9 to it and on the way there
>> I have a tentative version of P9P running on it without any
>> troublesome issues.
>>
>> I can't however get 9P working.  The protocol module can be installed,
>> but mount(8) doesn't recognise 9p as a mount type.  I don't have the
>> entire sources to gNewSense available and I'm not sure what I should
>> be looking for.  I have successfully compiled a 64-bit Linux kernel:
>>
>> Linux speckle.phyrql.alt.za 2.6.30 #10 Sun Jun 28 13:28:36 SAST 2009 mips64 GNU/Linux
>>
>> from the sources released by Lemote.
>>
>> Suggestions?
>>
>> ++L
>>
>>
>>
>