Re: [9fans] Compiling ken-cc on Linux

I have been following this discussion about the C compiler and can no longer stop myself from making a (snarky?) comment. The K standard for C was very much written when the C language was a higher than assembler language for the PDP-11 (at least that's how I became acquainted with it back in

Re: [9fans] rpi boot

I might be doing something wrong here, I was just responding to Adriano's post - which I thought remained at the bottom of my response. On 24 October 2015 at 10:00, Andrew Simmons wrote: > I’m not sure where you’re up to, so apologies if this isn’t helpful, but > to get the

Re: [9fans] rpi boot

I don't have the Plan9 uSD card handy, but to the best of my recollection all Raspberry Pi SD cards have at least two partitions on them. The ARM processor remains halted upon reset and the VideoCore loads the image from the (first?) DOS formatted partition. Once that image is loaded into RAM,

Re: [9fans] Small Plan 9 Platforms

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] DigiLand DL701Q quad core tablet

Plan9 kernel is monolithic with the drivers required for a specific platform compiled in. So you might need to write specific drivers for new hardware if they are not already available. The paper: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/compiling_kernels/ explains the steps required to generate a

Re: [9fans] questions about 9atom and 9legacy; and their updates

Thank you for the clarification, I was puzzling over similar issues. You could also consider 9vx http://swtch.com/9vx/ especially if you are tempted to try running under Qemu or some other virtualised environment. Although I'm only at the exploratory stage, I find 9vx more useful than 9front. I

Re: [9fans] Chrome and 9

I think that Plan9Port using the underlying Linux OS might be a better choice. I have also been thinking about cross-compiling from a Plan9 install (such as that on Raspberry Pi) to Samsung ARM based ChromeBook. Getting Plan9 to work with fastboot and implementing device drivers for the various