Re: [9fans] Small Plan 9 Platforms

2015-08-07 Thread Joseph Stewart
Brian, does your uni let you publish your curriculum or course notes? Is this something you've ever considered? -joe On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Brian L. Stuart blstu...@bellsouth.net wrote: I'm teaching a special topics course this fall I'm calling Computing in the Small. Right now, I'm

Re: [9fans] Small Plan 9 Platforms

2015-08-07 Thread Nick Owens
brian, i have started work on porting 9front to http://www.elinux.org/MIPS_Creator_CI20. this board has quite a number of features, and might be useful for education if the cost isn't prohibitive. nick On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 6:09 PM, Brian L. Stuart blstu...@bellsouth.net wrote: I'm teaching

Re: [9fans] Small Plan 9 Platforms

2015-08-07 Thread da Tyga
Hi Brian, Plan 9 works really well on a Raspberry Pi B for me. Haven't tried it on a RasPi 2 yet though. I would be rather cautious about so called compatible products. I have yet to meet a product that is truly compatible and the quirks tend to take up a disproportionate amount of time to

Re: [9fans] Small Plan 9 Platforms

2015-08-07 Thread lucio
this board has quite a number of features, and might be useful for education if the cost isn't prohibitive. The list is impressive and the schematics ought to make things simpler, but will support for Plan 9 be a real possibility? Persoanlly, I think Gbit ether is essential and a second ether

Re: [9fans] Small Plan 9 Platforms

2015-08-07 Thread Charles Forsyth
On 7 August 2015 at 18:13, Brian L. Stuart blstu...@bellsouth.net wrote: So depending on where plan9-bcm stands, it might be just right. That seems to be an old version of /sys/src/9/bcm (perhaps with modifications) so Richard Miller's version in contrib will be more up-to-date, I think.

Re: [9fans] Small Plan 9 Platforms

2015-08-07 Thread Brian L. Stuart
On Thu, 8/6/15, lu...@proxima.alt.za lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote: Olimex in Bulgaria manufacture and market worldwide a very wide range of AVR and ARM based boards and peripherals.  They target the DIY market.  Pay their site (olimex.com works for me) a visit. They do look interesting, and I

Re: [9fans] Small Plan 9 Platforms

2015-08-07 Thread Brian L. Stuart
On Wed, 8/5/15, Charles Forsyth charles.fors...@gmail.com wrote: I think the big advantage of the Rpi or Rpi2 (for speed, memory and cores)is that there's a wealth of published projects for them, including hardware ones, and other stuff, and they aren't likely to go away. It's true that

Re: [9fans] Small Plan 9 Platforms

2015-08-07 Thread Brian L. Stuart
On Wed, 8/5/15, Skip Tavakkolian skip.tavakkol...@gmail.com wrote: RPI's running something like plan9-bcm (check github) where gpio is exposed should work. I'm going to try plan9-bcm this weekend; i'll keep you posted. Thanks for the pointer. I'll definitely check that out. I'm hoping to