From: hiro <23hiro@googlemail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] apropos of the glendix post
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 09:10:47 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f4d8fa40809032310y6a73a113l5dc4622995c87293@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f6e371075613fe17d3abafc52aa17f8e@proxima.alt.za>
Good luck.
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 8:47 AM, <lucio@proxima.alt.za> wrote:
>> if linux can use binary blobs, why can't plan9 do it too?
>
> I think the BLOBs are platform specific, but I may be mistaken. If
> I'm right, there's no way that we'd get any momentum to turn this
> around.
>
> But your earlier comment is extremely valid, too few people are
> working on drivers. Without wishing to fan Discordia's flames, it is
> true that the 9fans community does not seem focused on solving
> problems, but rather on the academic value of the ease in which
> problems could be solved if one followed the 9 True Ways :-)
>
> That said, how do we mobilise the community to focus on useful
> drivers? I suppose we start with Ron's wish list, then we explore
> Russ' partially complete postings (i386 emulation, Centrino drivers,
> I'm sure I've forgotten many more) and thirdly we post a list of
> willing contributors, possibly split into code writers and advisors.
>
> Any takers?
>
> ++L
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-04 6:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-02 23:09 ron minnich
2008-09-02 23:22 ` Uriel
2008-09-02 23:43 ` ron minnich
2008-09-03 1:38 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2008-09-03 3:42 ` ron minnich
2008-09-03 13:02 ` erik quanstrom
2008-09-03 17:40 ` Anant Narayanan
2008-09-03 17:45 ` erik quanstrom
2008-09-03 18:06 ` lucio
2008-09-03 18:17 ` Anant Narayanan
2008-09-03 21:12 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2008-09-03 22:03 ` ron minnich
2008-09-03 22:19 ` Geoffrey Avila
2008-09-04 2:52 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2008-09-04 5:47 ` lucio
2008-09-04 6:10 ` hiro [this message]
2008-09-04 14:51 ` Michaelian Ennis
2008-09-04 15:15 ` erik quanstrom
2008-09-05 4:27 ` lucio
2008-09-04 14:52 ` Tim Wiess
2008-09-05 4:25 ` lucio
2008-09-04 23:03 ` dave.l
2008-09-04 23:18 ` ron minnich
2008-09-05 0:41 ` Uriel
2008-09-05 0:44 ` Uriel
2008-09-05 3:22 ` ron minnich
2008-09-05 4:33 ` lucio
2008-09-05 8:59 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2008-09-05 13:59 ` David Leimbach
2008-09-05 15:36 ` Mathieu Lonjaret
2008-09-05 15:31 ` ron minnich
2008-09-05 16:03 ` Zak B. Elep
2008-09-05 16:41 ` ron minnich
2008-09-03 21:13 ` Latchesar Ionkov
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