> i'm committed > to supporting go in 9atom to the extent that it does not compromise > or corrupt the system substantially.
I can't assist with the details of kernel requirements, but we all know that Russ, Rob and Ken will know better and be somewhat committed so that at least Plan 9 release is not going to be "compromised" by anything Go is going to need. You're also overlooking the fact that OSX, the *BSDs and even some Windows flavours are actively supported (and Solaris is threatening) so if anything compromises will be towards generality not specialisation (in other words, no one will try to turn Plan 9 into Linux). But (a) your concerns are reasonable and need to be kept sight of and (b) your idea of listing the necessary changes to Plan 9 dovetails very much with my idea on how to move forwards from here. I do wish we could get Bakul Shah and Anthony Martin to document what they are working on; and Gorka to document or at least describe to me, so I can try to document what his focus was when he was still working on the plan9/arm port. All of the above would be immensely helpful, in my opinion. ++L
