a few of us have these things. cinap has it booting to userspace over serial connection, but nobody has graphics working yet. i don’t think anything has been committed yet.

http://mnt.stanleylieber.com/reform/

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> On May 7, 2022, at 1:30 AM, william@thinktankworkspaces.com wrote:
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> Quoth Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net>:
>>> On Sat, May 07, 2022 at 04:36:29AM +0000, mkf9 wrote:
>>> Is it a problem with arm itself,
>>> or we don't have code to have
>>> a unified arm kernel (bcm+omap+etc) yet?
>> 
>> It's a problem with ARM itself.  Everyone pays ARM for processor designs
>> and then bolts random shit to it.  Since the random shit is not subject
>> to any standardization effort, every device is a special snowflake.
>> 
>> khm
>> 
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> Good to know. I'm glad I didn't waste too much time and getting further lost. 
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> Basically I need to pour through the different arm repo's and puzzle what I can for
> NXP/Freescale i.MX8MQ with 4x ARM Cortex-A53 cores (1.5 GHz), 1x Cortex-M4F core.
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> not familiar with paqfs. So that was interesting but I could comment all that out. 
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> This is an MNT reform laptop. After putting it together it seems pretty stable and I'm interest
> in porting plan9 to this thing. I expect I might need to dig into the ARM® Cortex®-A53 MPCore Processor
> Revision: r0p3 and try to figure this thing out. 
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> But before I do this has anyone made any headway in this area? I'm enjoying the laptop. The keyboard
> is a bit funky the mapping is different but all in all its enjoyable laptop and a bit sturdy. 
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> Recommendations greatly welcomed.
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> Regards, 
> -Will
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