Re: [9fans] Plan 9 port to Raspberry Pi 3 Model B (ARM64)?

2016-09-07 Thread James A. Robinson
Now I'm so tempted to get a stack of Raspberry Pi 3 and this case: https://www.amazon.com/GeauxRobot-Raspberry-Model-6-layer-Enclosure/dp/B01D9130QC/ref=sr_1_32 On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 6:53 AM Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com> wrote: > Getting Plan 9 to boot on the pi3 (in 32-bit mode) was alm

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 port to Raspberry Pi 3 Model B (ARM64)?

2016-03-03 Thread Charles Forsyth
The 32-bit subset of ARMv8 is (supposedly) better specified at the system level than ARMv7 (ie, by the v8 architecture itself). There are some cores that do just the 32-bit subset of v8, but apparently Cortex-A53 will do 64 as well, which I hadn't realised from the Rpi3 announcement I saw. On 3 M

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 port to Raspberry Pi 3 Model B (ARM64)?

2016-03-03 Thread Richard Miller
>> cpu0: 1200MHz ARM Cortex-A53 r0p4 > > it's ARMv8-A! When booted in 32-bit mode, it behaves like armv7a.

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 port to Raspberry Pi 3 Model B (ARM64)?

2016-03-03 Thread Charles Forsyth
On 3 March 2016 at 14:50, Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com> wrote: > cpu0: 1200MHz ARM Cortex-A53 r0p4 it's ARMv8-A!

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 port to Raspberry Pi 3 Model B (ARM64)?

2016-03-03 Thread Charles Forsyth
On 3 March 2016 at 14:50, Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com> wrote: > requires three new > instructions that 5a doesn't know about ... > Possibly. I added some of the control instructions where there was consistency in definition and they were needed more than once.

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 port to Raspberry Pi 3 Model B (ARM64)?

2016-03-03 Thread Richard Miller
Getting Plan 9 to boot on the pi3 (in 32-bit mode) was almost trivial. Plan 9 from Bell Labs board rev: 0xa02082 firmware rev: 1456410415 cpu0: 1200MHz ARM Cortex-A53 r0p4 fp: 32 registers, simd fp: arm arch VFPv3+ with null subarch; rev 4 eMMC exte

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 port to Raspberry Pi 3 Model B (ARM64)?

2016-03-02 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
On Wed, Mar 2, 2016, at 02:40 PM, Richard Miller wrote: > >> Incidentally I can confirm that the Raspberry Pi Zero runs Plan 9 > >> happily. > > > > Very nice to know that Richard. Is the image and the code available > > somewhere? > > The normal 9pi image runs on the zero too. Thank you. PiZero

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 port to Raspberry Pi 3 Model B (ARM64)?

2016-03-02 Thread Richard Miller
>> Incidentally I can confirm that the Raspberry Pi Zero runs Plan 9 >> happily. > > Very nice to know that Richard. Is the image and the code available > somewhere? The normal 9pi image runs on the zero too.

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 port to Raspberry Pi 3 Model B (ARM64)?

2016-03-01 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
On Tue, Mar 1, 2016, at 01:58 AM, Richard Miller wrote: > > Incidentally I can confirm that the Raspberry Pi Zero runs Plan 9 > happily. Very nice to know that Richard. Is the image and the code available somewhere? -- Ramakrishnan

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 port to Raspberry Pi 3 Model B (ARM64)?

2016-03-01 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Mark Lee Smith wrote: > What about NetBSD drivers? What about them? NetBSD doesn't support the Pi3. What drivers do we want anyway? > As I understand it the Rump project provides a clean way to run > NetBSD drivers in different environments. I guess the bigger pr

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 port to Raspberry Pi 3 Model B (ARM64)?

2016-03-01 Thread Mark Lee Smith
What about NetBSD drivers? As I understand it the Rump project provides a clean way to run NetBSD drivers in different environments. I guess the bigger problem here is be getting them past the compiler? On Mon, 29 Feb 2016, 22:48 erik quanstrom, wrote: > > 10-12 years ago FreeBSD had "project Ev

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 port to Raspberry Pi 3 Model B (ARM64)?

2016-02-29 Thread erik quanstrom
> 10-12 years ago FreeBSD had "project Evil" for an NDIS shim > layer that allowed use of windows network drivers on FreeBSD. > Has anyone considered writing a shim that allows use of a > FreeBSD driver with plan9? i looked at that a bit, and was not convinced that the surface area was manageable

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 port to Raspberry Pi 3 Model B (ARM64)?

2016-02-29 Thread Bakul Shah
On Mon, 29 Feb 2016 20:28:04 GMT Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com> wrote: > > Now that RPI3 is generally available, I'm wondering if there are any > > efforts underway to port Plan 9 to it. > > "Underway" might be a bit ambitious since it was only announced today. > I've ordered one to have a pl

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 port to Raspberry Pi 3 Model B (ARM64)?

2016-02-29 Thread Richard Miller
> Now that RPI3 is generally available, I'm wondering if there are any > efforts underway to port Plan 9 to it. "Underway" might be a bit ambitious since it was only announced today. I've ordered one to have a play with. > I would like to help in any way I > can. Finding a programming manual for

[9fans] Plan 9 port to Raspberry Pi 3 Model B (ARM64)?

2016-02-29 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
Now that RPI3 is generally available, I'm wondering if there are any efforts underway to port Plan 9 to it. I would like to help in any way I can. -Skip