[9fans] raspberry pi kernel update

2018-06-13 Thread Richard Miller
I've made an update to the rpi 2 & 3 kernel source (armv7.s and rebootcode.s in /n/sources/contrib/miller/9/bcm) to correct a couple of long-standing flaws in the multicore startup: - dependency on the order of object files for the 5l command in the mkfile, resulting in "lock loop" or "only 1 cp

[9fans] raspberry pi kernel update

2018-06-13 Thread Richard Miller
I've made an update to the rpi 2 & 3 kernel source (armv7.s and rebootcode.s) which fixes a couple of long-standing flaws in the multicore startup: - dependency on the order of object files for the 5l command in the mkfile, resulting in "lock loop" or "only 1 cpu started" error for some configur

Re: [9fans] simple rc problem in p9p (on OpenBSD)

2018-06-13 Thread Ethan A. Gardener
On Thu, Apr 26, 2018, at 8:01 PM, Costin Chirvasuta wrote: > I lot of the messages on this list end up being marked as spam. I > believe there was a previous discussion about this. I've had no trouble with this list on fastmail.fm , for what it's worth.

[9fans] 9hist

2018-06-13 Thread Steve Simon
Hi, I had not realised that the whole database of the early history of the plan9 kernel is available as a single tar image (see /n/sources/extra/9hist). has anyone tried (for fun) writing a script to reverse (patch) the diffs and populate a directory of the form dump//mmdd/sys/src/9/... ?

[9fans] What are you using Plan 9 for?

2018-06-13 Thread 刘宇宝
Yesterday night I finished the sixth article of my Plan 9 adventure series at Zhihu, a Chinese Quora like site, https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/c_185117725 I feel many things are interesting and special, such as Rio(simple and beautiful, love it), Acme(so easy to extend), 9p(simple and clean), rc(rig

[9fans] looking for tcl/tk sam clone

2018-06-13 Thread Ethan A. Gardener
i had a copy of sam clone written entirely in tcl/tk, "tsam" or something, but I've lost it. where can i download it from, please? -- The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. -- Chaucer

Re: [9fans] What are you using Plan 9 for?

2018-06-13 Thread 刘宇宝
[sorry to cross post to 9front, hope somebody there can double check] Uh, is the mailing list down? I can't find any new emails after 5/14 at https://marc.info/?l=9fans, also can't connect to http://mail.9fans.net/. > On Jun 11, 2018, at 2:14 PM, 刘宇宝 wrote: > > Yesterday night I finished the

Re: [9fans] how to undo in Rio shell window and Acme editor?

2018-06-13 Thread Ethan A. Gardener
As a small extra hint if you ever need to work outside Acme, any delete of selected text is effectively a cut. You can paste it back in. I used to use that like undo all the time. On Wed, May 9, 2018, at 7:32 AM, 刘宇宝 wrote: > Hi all, > > Recently I started an adventure to 9front and found Plan

Re: [9fans] What are you using Plan 9 for?

2018-06-13 Thread N. S. Montanaro
I think a lot of people discover Plan 9 and want it to be something it isn’t, rather than stumble upon it out of necessity. As the FQA says, “Plan 9 is not for you."

Re: [9fans] What are you using Plan 9 for?

2018-06-13 Thread 刘宇宝
Compared to "not for you", "don't care", "intend to not be successful", I like more the topic of cat-v irc channel on freenode set by aiju: "fun fact: you can use multiple operating systems at the same time". Certainly Plan 9 can't replace Linux/macOS/BSD/Windows, I'm still curious its upper

Re: [9fans] What are you using Plan 9 for?

2018-06-13 Thread Lucio De Re
My most current frustration (a bit off topic) is Skype's keystroke echo latency, whatever the cause. I can't cope with it, yet I have to use it for employment reasons. It reminds me that upas with acme Mail is immeasurably faster at reading and reacting to mail than the bloat I need to use as a ma