Re: [9fans] kw IC

2010-09-04 Thread Akshat Kumar
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 5:47 PM, ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: They have the added advantage of the exponent after the I. Reminds me of the degrees of infinity. So instead of sucketh-null, I guess they are sucketh-1? Ron, the suck is uncountable ak

Re: [9fans] too many system calls.

2010-09-04 Thread Akshat Kumar
Is ratrace usable on native Plan 9 (I understand it's in use on 9vx thus far)? I don't see a /proc/n/syscall file for any of my processes; is there some kernel patch for this? Thanks, ak On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:14 PM, ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: Glibc /bin/date on Linux runs around

Re: [9fans] 8086 Interpreter

2010-09-04 Thread Russ Cox
In theory, with these I would simply get a binary file from the assembly, which I could then run on, say, dosbox in 8086 mode in Windows? You'd get a raw file with instructions in it. It would be up to you to turn that into an appropriate executable. (If you renamed it foo.com that would

Re: [9fans] too many system calls.

2010-09-04 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sat Sep 4 03:59:16 EDT 2010, aku...@mail.nanosouffle.net wrote: Is ratrace usable on native Plan 9 (I understand it's in use on 9vx thus far)? I don't see a /proc/n/syscall file for any of my processes; is there some kernel patch for this? acid is perfectly capabible of doing this. see the

Re: kw I²C

2010-09-04 Thread Tristan Plumb
eric quanstrom: if i read the marvell specification correctly, it uses i²s, not i²c. wikipedia has a pointer to the phillips specification. It uses i²s to for the data (sound) transport. the control for the codec is seperate, the codec is a cs42l51, which has an i²s interface for data and either

Re: [9fans] too many system calls.

2010-09-04 Thread ron minnich
On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Akshat Kumar aku...@mail.nanosouffle.net wrote: Is ratrace usable on native Plan 9 (I understand it's in use on 9vx thus far)? I don't see a /proc/n/syscall file for any of my processes; is there some kernel patch for this? One could take the modified version

Re: [9fans] kw I²C

2010-09-04 Thread Bankim Bhavsar
Though Immediate Command/Response Interface should work, CORB/RIRB is the recommended way to send/receive commands/responses from the codec. Reading the datasheet of the codec, I havn't found any mention of CORB or RIRB, so I would hazard a guess that that's not what I want. But still, what

[9fans] latest plan9.iso

2010-09-04 Thread Benjamin Huntsman
Anyone tried to install from a very recent plan9.iso? I just downloaded the latest one this morning. I'm trying to install into a VMware ESXi virtual machine. I installed another just about a week ago, and did not encounter any trouble. I frequently have to plug in the correct SCSI device

Re: [9fans] latest plan9.iso

2010-09-04 Thread Benjamin Huntsman
apologies for the noise... please disregard. Thought I had the lsilogic controller working once before, but guess not. buslogic it is. -Original Message- From: 9fans-boun...@9fans.net on behalf of Benjamin Huntsman Sent: Sat 9/4/2010 3:37 PM To: 9fans@9fans.net Subject: [9fans] latest

Re: [9fans] latest plan9.iso

2010-09-04 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sat Sep 4 19:09:33 EDT 2010, bhunts...@mail2.cu-portland.edu wrote: apologies for the noise... please disregard. Thought I had the lsilogic controller working once before, but guess not. buslogic it is. [...] cpu0: 2796MHz PentiumIV/Xeon loop 47254 apm ax=f000 cx=f000 dx=40 di=

[9fans] resizing desktops uncer vmware vs. parallels

2010-09-04 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
For ages I've run diskless terminals under Parallels, and aux/vga would quite cheerfully resize the Parallels window to match anything I told it. Recently I had to migrate from Parallels to Fusion. Resizing doesn't work any more. Furthermore, I'm buggered if I can programmatically figure out

[9fans] resizing desktops under vmware vs. parallels

2010-09-04 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
[ Let me try again, this time hitting Post vs |fmt :-) ] For ages I've run diskless terminals under Parallels, and aux/vga would quite cheerfully resize the Parallels window to match anything I told it. Recently I had to migrate from Parallels to Fusion. Resizing doesn't work any more.

Re: [9fans] latest plan9.iso

2010-09-04 Thread Bruce Ellis
i came across this the other day - i thought i'd finally found a machine for which P9 supports nothing. in fact i beat you - no PCI devices at all. any help appreciated. it boots any flavour of windows. new HP Pav quadcore. brucee On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 11:02 AM, erik quanstrom

Re: [9fans] latest plan9.iso

2010-09-04 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sat Sep 4 22:56:22 EDT 2010, bruce.el...@gmail.com wrote: i came across this the other day - i thought i'd finally found a machine for which P9 supports nothing. in fact i beat you - no PCI devices at all. any help appreciated. it boots any flavour of windows. new HP Pav quadcore.