From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 2297 invoked from network); 28 Nov 2022 07:58:35 -0000 Received: from 9front.inri.net (168.235.81.73) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 28 Nov 2022 07:58:35 -0000 Received: from sirjofri.de ([5.45.105.127]) by 9front; Mon Nov 28 02:56:55 -0500 2022 Received: from dummy.faircode.eu ([95.90.217.122]) by sirjofri.de; Mon Nov 28 08:56:46 +0100 2022 Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 08:56:44 +0100 (GMT+01:00) From: sirjofri To: 9front@9front.org Message-ID: <0df780bc-37c8-4f01-8c40-aa50e83d0573@sirjofri.de> In-Reply-To: References: <51022878-2dcf-42be-9990-60f2d1475ce5@sirjofri.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Correlation-ID: <0df780bc-37c8-4f01-8c40-aa50e83d0573@sirjofri.de> List-ID: <9front.9front.org> List-Help: X-Glyph: ➈ X-Bullshit: descriptor blockchain AJAX lifecycle session solution Subject: Re: [9front] 9front on the Allwinner A64 Reply-To: 9front@9front.org Precedence: bulk 28.11.2022 01:27:59 adventures in9 : > Looks like I have some extra reading to do tonight. > The Pine64 folks were kind enough to post the datasheet for the A64 > https://files.pine64.org/doc/datasheet/pine64/Allwinner_A64_User_Manual_V1.0.pdf Yes, and they also have the schematics for their boards you'll definitely find useful. I skimmed through the A64 manual (and obviously skipped the irrelevant pages for now), it's big, but well structured. Btw there's also a lowlevel community specifically for pine devs on their discord (which is also available through matrix and maybe even irc, idk). There's a handful of nice and helpful people there. They also would be happy about a Plan 9 on pinephone, though they probably wouldn't know what to do with it. My long-term goal is to create a basis for a full Plan 9 phone, that means, building a few basic touch-friendly apps, like a launcher and stuff like that. It will really be a challenge since I want to try capturing the Plan 9 concepts there, for example, it should be easily possible to plumb things, snarf-and-paste, and I'd like to develop a touch-friendly text interface. Obviously there's a long way until I can really run software like that on the pinephone, but due to compatibility I should be able to develop those apps fully on an amd64, run with mouse, and it should work on a pinephone automatically (after recompile). sirjofri