Re: [9fans] Question re source trees

2016-09-29 Thread James A. Robinson
​Thank you for the answer, that's very generous of ​you and your client! (I had thought the http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources site was having trouble, looks like maybe it's just Chrome getting aggressive about HTTPS and failing, I can open the page w/ lynx). Jim

Re: [9fans] Question re source trees

2016-09-29 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 09:08:27AM +0100, Richard Miller wrote: > > I can also supply bluetooth code for the pi3 if anyone is interested. > I am interested. Will it be part of your next pi release? khm

[9fans] Question re source trees

2016-09-29 Thread James A. Robinson
Hi folks, I notice that http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/download/plan9.iso.bz2 is from 2015-01-10, whereas Richard Miller's http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/miller/9pi.img.gz was built on 2016-05-30. I was wondering whether the changes made by Mr. Miller for supporting the Raspberry

Re: [9fans] The correct way to do an incorrect thing

2016-09-29 Thread Harri Haataja
I thought it would be to make an XML file describing red and yellow polkadot that is compiled in to the source because research says that is the the background that most increases productivity. If anyone wants to change it they're free to go edit the code and rebuild. On 29 September 2016 at

Re: [9fans] Question re source trees

2016-09-29 Thread Richard Miller
> I was wondering whether the changes made > by Mr. Miller for supporting the Raspberry Pi were getting folded > back into a source tree available via means other than those with > an active plan9 system (I see references to /n/sources/contrib/miller > which I assume is a 9fs mount). You can

Re: [9fans] The correct way to do an incorrect thing

2016-09-29 Thread hiro
no, the plan 9 way is to apply for a grant first, that would support such endeavor On 9/29/16, Erik Quanstrom wrote: > a plan 9 thing would be to use /usr/$user/lib/acmebg and call it a day. > > > On Sep 28, 2016 4:07 PM, Marshall Conover wrote: >>

[9fans] Question re source trees

2016-09-29 Thread Richard Miller
> > > I can also supply bluetooth code for the pi3 if anyone is interested. > > > > I am interested. Will it be part of your next pi release? > > Probably not for a while. I would have to write some man pages first.

Re: [9fans] Question re source trees

2016-09-29 Thread Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
This is great news. I am thinking of using the Pi3 to control a mobile platform, and having wifi support without using an external wireless router would simplify the hardware. On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 10:08 AM, Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com> wrote: > > I was wondering whether the changes