Re: [9fans] Is there a reason for the existence of 9atom?

2011-02-21 Thread Jacek Masiulaniec
On 15 February 2011 08:08, Fernan Bolando fernanbola...@mailc.net wrote: i have always considered 9atom and a few other independent plan9 stuff as something similar to the openbsd release strategy. Theres a stable release and a current. 9atom is more like openbsd-current it's bleeding edge,

Re: [9fans] Is there a reason for the existence of 9atom?

2011-02-15 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Eugene Gorodinsky e.gorodin...@gmail.com wrote: This question has been bugging me for some time and I haven't found any discussions on the matter. It seems that at least the devices support could go into the original plan9 kernel. What's the reason for having a

Re: [9fans] Is there a reason for the existence of 9atom?

2011-02-14 Thread Sergey Zhilkin
Ask Geoff :) I think, that plan9 code-base is used somewhere else at Alcatel-Lucent. :) 2011/2/14 Eugene Gorodinsky e.gorodin...@gmail.com Any specific rules as to which changes are going to be accepted and which are not? 2011/2/14 Anthony Sorace a...@9srv.net No big mystery: the Bell

Re: [9fans] Is there a reason for the existence of 9atom?

2011-02-14 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Feb 14 02:01:04 EST 2011, e.gorodin...@gmail.com wrote: Been there, done that. Not a line of text saying why 9atom appeared nor why the changes are not merged back into plan9. there was at least one person i told that a certain bit of atom hardware works great, only to find out that it

[9fans] Is there a reason for the existence of 9atom?

2011-02-13 Thread Eugene Gorodinsky
This question has been bugging me for some time and I haven't found any discussions on the matter. It seems that at least the devices support could go into the original plan9 kernel. What's the reason for having a fork?

Re: [9fans] Is there a reason for the existence of 9atom?

2011-02-13 Thread Sergey Zhilkin
Hello ! :) Go to the http://www.quanstro.net/plan9/9atom/ and read the few lines of text. On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Eugene Gorodinsky e.gorodin...@gmail.comwrote: This question has been bugging me for some time and I haven't found any discussions on the matter. It seems that at least

Re: [9fans] Is there a reason for the existence of 9atom?

2011-02-13 Thread Eugene Gorodinsky
Been there, done that. Not a line of text saying why 9atom appeared nor why the changes are not merged back into plan9. 2011/2/13 Sergey Zhilkin szhil...@gmail.com Hello ! :) Go to the http://www.quanstro.net/plan9/9atom/ and read the few lines of text. On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 1:49 PM,

Re: [9fans] Is there a reason for the existence of 9atom?

2011-02-13 Thread Anthony Sorace
No big mystery: the Bell Labs folks are more conservative about folding in certain kinds of changes than Erik is. PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [9fans] Is there a reason for the existence of 9atom?

2011-02-13 Thread Eugene Gorodinsky
Any specific rules as to which changes are going to be accepted and which are not? 2011/2/14 Anthony Sorace a...@9srv.net No big mystery: the Bell Labs folks are more conservative about folding in certain kinds of changes than Erik is.