Re: [9fans] Plan 9 5th Edition

2016-11-18 Thread hiro
btw. the turing machine should work in user space of course. why would anyone put that into a kernel?!

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 5th Edition

2016-11-18 Thread hiro
for 5th edition i wanna see a turing machine where the tape is exported through a file server, it should support jumping to arbitrary times via a ctl file. that way we can solve complex problems very easily from simple rc scripts. for example: echo inf > turing/time/ctl; cat turing/tape On

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 5th Edition

2016-11-18 Thread Jules Merit
9p @ boot is what I made for bootloader. BIOS, PXE, MBR. Not much of a kernel is needed as one can flash "the" program for cluster nodes. On Nov 18, 2016 11:57 AM, "Charlie Lin" wrote: My idea: implement a user-space filesystem to expose all EFI variables. As for the

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 5th Edition

2016-11-18 Thread Charlie Lin
My mistake for hastiness: should we implement the filesystem in kernel or user space? On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Charlie Lin wrote: > Like efivarfs in the Linux kernel > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 2:54 PM, Charlie Lin > wrote: > >> My idea:

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 5th Edition

2016-11-18 Thread Charlie Lin
Like efivarfs in the Linux kernel On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 2:54 PM, Charlie Lin wrote: > My idea: implement a user-space filesystem to expose all EFI variables. > As for the bootloader, any ideas? > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 7:30 PM, Kurt H Maier wrote:

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 5th Edition

2016-11-18 Thread Charlie Lin
My idea: implement a user-space filesystem to expose all EFI variables. As for the bootloader, any ideas? On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 7:30 PM, Kurt H Maier wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 07:21:14PM -0500, Charlie Lin wrote: > > Add one more: EFI support > > Also, can Plan 9 be