On Mon, Dec 1, 2014, at 11:14 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > > Surprisingly I didn't see a paper on porting Plan9 to new architectures > > in the plan9 paper collection. Any help and pointers on how to get > > started with the porting effort will be highly appreciated. > > it's all about the documentation. if you can get it, boringing up a new > kernel for a new architecture can go from impossible to very doable. > it's still a lot of work, and it can be hard to sit down and spend a week > finding that one little bit that prevents anything from working. good > luck, nonetheless. more architectures is definately moar better.
Thanks. IMX6 documentation is freely available. There is a version of u-boot. The manufacturer (Solid Run) also has made the board schematics etc available. >From the reading of booting(8), I am assuming that the ARM devices in plan9 use the u-boot for booting the kernel up?
