Why do you think drivers would not be a problem on the Pi?arquebus wrote:Both Plan 9 and Inferno are old OS's that run on very small hardware, they should absolutely smoke on the RasPi. So has anyone ported either to the RasPi? Ive heard it is difficult to get them to run on x86 due to lack of drivers but that shouldnt be a problem for the RasPi.
Let me know if you get anywhere - would be interested in whether we could get Plan 9 (fundamentally a distributed operating system( to run with multiple processorsaaa801 wrote:Mhm im looking into plan 9
Bakul Shah wrote:Tomorrow at the Raspberry Jam @ the Computer History Museum in Mountain VIew, California I hope to show off 9pi -- Richard Miller's plan9 port to the RaspberryPi. This is a work in progress -- no USB driver as yet but it boots up in seconds, uses its own fossil filesystem, can use the display and so on. Much work remains but if you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, you can come get a taste of plan9 @ the CHM! See the user groups and events forum for details. Don't worry if you miss this one; I will bring this to the next month's meet as well, hopefully with a working USB driver.
Still a work in progress. If you already know your way around plan9, the current sources can be found in /n/sources/contrib/miller/9. You can cross build from any existing plan9 machine or 9vx. But it is really not ready for new users.smrz wrote:Does anyone have a link for this port? I can't find anything but this post on the web... Would love to get plan 9 on my pi.
Bakul Shah wrote:Tomorrow at the Raspberry Jam @ the Computer History Museum in Mountain VIew, California I hope to show off 9pi -- Richard Miller's plan9 port to the RaspberryPi. This is a work in progress -- no USB driver as yet but it boots up in seconds, uses its own fossil filesystem, can use the display and so on. Much work remains but if you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, you can come get a taste of plan9 @ the CHM! See the user groups and events forum for details. Don't worry if you miss this one; I will bring this to the next month's meet as well, hopefully with a working USB driver.
To be precise, there's no USB support yet, which means no keyboard and mouse, and no ethernet. (Unless you have an existing Plan 9 network, in which case you can import all these from another Plan 9 machine over a ppp connection via the serial port.)Bakul Shah wrote: Still a work in progress.
9pi wrote:To be precise, there's no USB support yet, which means no keyboard and mouse, and no ethernet. (Unless you have an existing Plan 9 network, in which case you can import all these from another Plan 9 machine over a ppp connection via the serial port.)Bakul Shah wrote: Still a work in progress.
I could put together a "demo" distribution, but I think it would be premature to do this until a USB driver is sorted out. Without a network or GUI, you would be getting a very limited impression of what Plan 9 is about.
Start here: http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/plan_9_wiki/smrz wrote:Bummer! I've never worked with Plan 9 before, and though that playing with a few Pi's would be a nice introduction. Any suggestions for tutorials / resources / projects to get started with Plan 9?
See this thread: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgr ... T_YFup68YUgwoodward wrote:Hi,
How could I get involved with the port? I was thinking of attempting a port of Inferno.