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Subject: Re: [9front] 19,21 ARM Dev Summit and porting to Solid-Run hardware
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On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 04:28:40PM +1100, v@9p.sdf.org wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> How good are the chances for 9front to reachout to Arm industry partners (two links below, see) and port Plan 9 operating system to new ARM cpu?  I just discovered 9front has ports to bcm and bcm64 but those are older arm cpu.
> 
> Best,
> 
> -- 
> v
> 9SDF Public Access Plan 9 System
> => https://devsummit.arm.com arm DevSummit Oct 19-21 Virtual
> => https://developer.solid-run.com
> 

Generally speaking, step 1 to porting 9front to a certain piece of
hardware involves 9front users owning that hardware.  I know a couple of
us have i.MXM8MQ devices, but ARM ports in general suck because there
is no standardization.

The ARM developer summit is a useless sales event; if you need evidence,
look to the presentations from Amazon Web Services about disrupting HPC
(a market where they have almost zero presence) and talks from Red Hat
about disrupting automotive tech (same).  It's all aspirational bullshit
that outside sales executives need to justify their jobs.

Anyway, if you're interested in porting to the i.MX8M hardware, but
don't have the resources to buy a MNT Reform, this device would probably
be a good starting point:

https://coral.ai/products/dev-board

khm