Fwd: [9front] 9front on spim

[adventures in9 <adventuresin9@gmail.com>]

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From: adventures in9 <adventuresin9@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jul 4, 2022 at 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: [9front] 9front on spim
To: Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) <lyndon@orthanc.ca>


That would be cool.  I have the dock for mine that does uart over usb,
and I got that working.  I have not got around to drivers for the wifi
or ethernet adapter, because right now it crashes during boot.  The
video I made covering what I did so far can be found here;
https://youtu.be/m75mf-j4V5c

There was work on an open source wifi driver, so I was hoping to
borrow from it to get a 9front one working.  It also has i2c, and I
wanted to hook up various sensors over that.  I've done it with
Raspberry Pi's, and the Plan 9 way of remotely mounting sensor data as
files over the network is nice.

On Mon, Jul 4, 2022 at 5:11 PM Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
<lyndon@orthanc.ca> wrote:
>
> That's interesting.  I have a couple of those Omega 2s lying around
> here, somewhere.  I never found them to be very useful (to me) in
> their native form, but having a Plan 9 on them makes them very viable
> for remote sensing type applications.
>
> If I can figure out which box they are lurking in I'll dig them out
> and take your code for a spin.
>
> --lyndon