Re: [9fans] Questions on the browser as a platform if plan 9

2016-09-19 Thread Marshall Conover
> I wonder if 9p could be implemented on an SoC. It'd be neat for the whole 'internet of things' hullabaloo.

Re: [9fans] 9front 5492 1919

2016-09-19 Thread Jules Merit
Thanks Hurt F.A.K.K.2, SNES Kurt. "you don't need a fact three". On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 5:14 PM, Kurt H Maier wrote: > On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 04:56:39PM -0700, Jules Merit wrote: > > Go away Die NSA release fails to go beyond... > > "759M memory: 256M kernel data. 503M user,

Re: [9fans] 9front 5492 1919

2016-09-19 Thread Jules Merit
It was *bogobananas= Taken from the undocumented 65c816 processor. On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 4:56 PM, Jules Merit < jules.merit.eurocorp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Go away Die NSA release fails to go beyond... > "759M memory: 256M kernel data. 503M user, 1128M swap" > > It got past 9boot, I can get

Re: [9fans] 9front 5492 1919

2016-09-19 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 04:56:39PM -0700, Jules Merit wrote: > Go away Die NSA release fails to go beyond... > "759M memory: 256M kernel data. 503M user, 1128M swap" See section 9.5.2 of the 9front FQA: http://fqa.9front.org/fqa9.html#9.5.2 Further troubleshooting should probably happen on the

[9fans] 9front 5492 1919

2016-09-19 Thread Jules Merit
Go away Die NSA release fails to go beyond... "759M memory: 256M kernel data. 503M user, 1128M swap" It got past 9boot, I can get ">" #Y0 Ricoh 476, #l0 i82557, #l1 wavelanpc, #A0 ac97 detected Any extra plan9.ini statements to try to get more verbose messages? I know this worked on plan9 since

Re: [9fans] Questions on the browser as a platform if plan 9 had gained marketshare

2016-09-19 Thread Marshall Conover
> Mounting a bin directory from some remote servers is a potential vector for malicious code and requires all services to provide binaries for all platforms (arm, x86, riscv,...). Instead, serving the source code and mkfile allows for audit ability (what did I just run?) and support for their own

Re: [9fans] Questions on the browser as a platform if plan 9 had gained marketshare

2016-09-19 Thread Chris McGee
If plan 9 had taken off I wonder if there would be peripherals with built-in 9P support. For example, a network adapter that you can mount into /net/etherxyz over USB, PCI using a 9P connection. No driver needed, except to communicate with the bus. Also, external storage (hdd, ssd) with a

Re: [9fans] Questions on the browser as a platform if plan 9 had gained marketshare

2016-09-19 Thread Chris McGee
> > > You just mount search engine, route planning tool, or even shopping site > > and echo commands into the ctl file. > > I hadn't thought of this - was more thinking on the user union mounting, say, > google.com/bin into their bin directory and running a google operation. The > concept

Re: [9fans] Questions on the browser as a platform if plan 9 had gained marketshare

2016-09-19 Thread michaelian ennis
On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Jules Merit < jules.merit.eurocorp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Troff + net, > This spring (in the northern hemisphere) I had toyed with the notion of using troff as an intermediate format for publishing public record data sets. This was however because I wanted to

Re: [9fans] Questions on the browser as a platform if plan 9 had gained marketshare

2016-09-19 Thread Marshall Conover
Thanks, Chris! That was a lot more detailed than I had thought into it. > You just mount search engine, route planning tool, or even shopping site and echo commands into the ctl file. I hadn't thought of this - was more thinking on the user union mounting, say, google.com/bin into their bin