Re: [9fans] ARM hardware and SATA

[Juan Cuzmar <juan.cuzmar.s@gmail.com>]

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Wow I'm surprised that people are still working on plan9 to
develop things especially in google... If I could aso: what kind
of things you develop with plan9?

Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com> wrote:
> We had 9legacy running on Intel NUCs at Google for our internal
> development. It worked well enough, though of course wasn't an
> ARM based machine. Getting it going was a little hacky, but not
> too bad. We were using raspberry pi's as terminals.
> 
> I haven't looked in depth, but I suspect there's relatively
> little support for SATA interfaces in Richard's BCM code.
> Targeting something like the BananaPi W2 as a small server
> would probably be doable and the delta from Richard's code
> would be smaller than an ersatz port.
> 
>         - Dan C.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 12:02 PM Lucio De Re
> <lucio.dere@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'd like suggestions for some hardware on which to run Plan 9, almost
> > certainly expandable SSD capacity will be a must (Venti service).
> > Price and quality will be the biggest factors, as always.
> > 
> > Ideally, storage is where the value will reside, the actual processor
> > could be expendable.
> > 
> > ARM would allow me to start with Richard Miller's release, which I
> > believe to be a very sound foundation.
> > 
> > Thanks for any and all comments.
> > 
> > Lucio.
> 
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