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/

sl

On May 7, 2022, at 1:30 AM, william@thinktankworkspaces.com wrote:

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


Good to know. I'm glad I didn't waste too much time and getting further lost.

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.

not familiar with paqfs. So that was interesting but I could comment all that out.

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.

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.

Recommendations greatly welcomed.

Regards,
-Will