Re: [9fans] pxe booting net4801

2010-09-23 Thread David du Colombier
why not partition the CF like a normal disk? You means creating a NVRAM partition? That could be another option. In this case, the nvram variable will be: nvram=#S/sdC1/nvram -- David du Colombier

Re: [9fans] pxe booting net4801

2010-09-23 Thread David du Colombier
i haven't used a soekris for quite some time. (too slow!) iirc, I would like to know if you are aware of any faster alternative to the Soekris. For me, the Soekris have the following characteristics: - multiple network interfaces (up to four, plus one PCI slot), - small, - low power, -

Re: [9fans] pxe booting net4801

2010-09-23 Thread erik quanstrom
I have few FabiaTech FX5624 running Plan 9 at work. The processor (AMD Celeron-M 600MHz) is fairly faster and there is two 1 Gb/s network interfaces (plus four 100 Mb/s). SuperMicro Atom motherboards like X7SLA, X7SPA and X7SPE are really nice. They are faster, but they have only two

[9fans] IBM Research Internship Position Available

2010-09-23 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
6 month posting for graduate students only to work on the DOE HARE project (http://is.gd/foRdS) This is the third and last year of funding, so don't miss out on a great opportunity to work on Plan 9 on one of the largest supercomputers on the planet. Job posting is here: http://is.gd/foQOS

Re: [9fans] IBM Research Internship Position Available

2010-09-23 Thread Mathieu Lonjaret
Hello, when would the job start? mathieu ---BeginMessage--- 6 month posting for graduate students only to work on the DOE HARE project (http://is.gd/foRdS) This is the third and last year of funding, so don't miss out on a great opportunity to work on Plan 9 on one of the largest supercomputers

Re: [9fans] IBM Research Internship Position Available

2010-09-23 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Mathieu Lonjaret mathieu.lonja...@gmail.com wrote: when would the job start? Somewhat negotiable, but the preference is for a 6 month internship starting no later than Feb 15, 2011. The realities of IBM bureaucracy mean there is likely a 1-2 month processing

[9fans] just tested sysfromiso tree with sheeva plug

2010-09-23 Thread ron minnich
it still works fine. Thanks geoff, good things keep happening in the arm tree :-) For 9vx users, I have been hg pulling from the sysfromiso tree regularly and doing a mk install and it's all working smoothly now. I try to do this once every other night. I can now reliably build a complete tree

Re: [9fans] just tested sysfromiso tree with sheeva plug

2010-09-23 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Sep 23 11:39:01 EDT 2010, rminn...@gmail.com wrote: it still works fine. Thanks geoff, good things keep happening in the arm tree :-) For 9vx users, I have been hg pulling from the sysfromiso tree regularly and doing a mk install and it's all working smoothly now. I try to do this

Re: [9fans] just tested sysfromiso tree with sheeva plug

2010-09-23 Thread ron minnich
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 8:40 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: could you provide the rest of us who don't know about the sysfromio tree some background on this?  thanks! http://bitbucket.org/rminnich/sysfromiso it's a periodic snapshot of the plan 9 sources (from the .iso). ron

[9fans] ramfs memory limit

2010-09-23 Thread erik quanstrom
ramfs(4)'s memory limit actually applies per file, not globally as its man page claims. i've attached a version of ramfs that (a) corrects this mistake, and (b) allows the memory limit to be settable. the motivation for (b) is the same as for the current memory limit, except in the case in

Re: [9fans] plan9port troff no Greek letters

2010-09-23 Thread Tony Lainson
Rudolf Sykora said: Does anyone of you know if it is possible to teach linux to read unicode letters as plan9 does? Russ Cox said: ... generate a config that makes the X11 compose do exactly what p9p does ... a python script that generates such a config, by Kris Maglione: