Re: [9fans] graphics

2012-08-06 Thread Charles Forsyth
Isn't that the same as vga, then? On 6 August 2012 13:42, ron minnich wrote: > This is not vga ... it gets messy.

[9fans] graphics

2012-08-06 Thread ron minnich
This just hit phoronix: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTE1NDc I'm extracting a driver from linux for use in coreboot, using the semantic patch tool. The goal is to let coreboot draw a splash screen in the first 200 milliseconds or so after power on. I've got a lot of bits work

Re: [9fans] sam, shorten dot by 1 line

2012-08-06 Thread Rob Pike
Empty dot at the beginning of a line is also empty dot at the end of the previous line. I'm not justifying the behavior, just explaining it. This is really old code with, I admit, some quirky properties. I often think of rewriting the address code in sam and acme but never do, because a rewrite wo

Re: [9fans] Mini PCs

2012-08-06 Thread Comeau At9Fans
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 7:03 AM, wrote: > On Monday, June 11, 2012 6:19:20 AM UTC+8, Comeau At9Fans wrote: > I preferred android os system, so I brought one piece MK802 mini android > > pc from http://miniandroidpc.com. It makes my TV to be a Internet/Smart > > TV. So far it works well and I like

[9fans] ppp pi

2012-08-06 Thread Richard Miller
Using ip/ppp on the raspberry pi's serial port connected to a plan 9 server, I can boot with rootfs coming from the server, and cpu in to the pi. Not ethernet speed but it works for experimenting. I was only able to do this by adding a 'no authentication' option to the server side of ppp, having

Re: [9fans] Mini PCs

2012-08-06 Thread crazyespia
On Monday, June 11, 2012 6:19:20 AM UTC+8, Comeau At9Fans wrote: > Ok, so, unless I was asleep at the wheel following these > discussions, there's been a few "mini PCs" to come about lately: > > > * Raspberry Pi > * Cotton Candy > > * Mele A1000 > * MK802 > > > We have a small number of the la

Re: [9fans] sam, shorten dot by 1 line

2012-08-06 Thread tlaronde
On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 09:04:13AM +0200, Rudolf Sykora wrote: > > This pertains to the example I gave: > > Having > > | asdfasdf asdfasdf asdfasdf asdfasdfa asfdsfasdf > > where | represents an empty dot at the beginning of a line (line as > drawn in the editor), .+0 does nothing. According to

Re: [9fans] sam, shorten dot by 1 line

2012-08-06 Thread Rudolf Sykora
On 6 August 2012 02:52, Rob Pike wrote: > .+0 goes from the end of the current value of dot to the end of the > line containing dot. > .-0 goes from the beginning of the line containing dot to the > beginning of the current value of dot. Yes, this is what I thought. (But is different from what yo