On 5/5/19, cinap_len...@felloff.net <cinap_len...@felloff.net> wrote: > > [ ... ] > > you can try to add the etherelnk3 line to the pc64 config and > rebuild. > Done that, partially, jury is still out. But now I have a test bench to try things out a little more reliably. Watch this space, I need a bit of time...
> if you have this issue with the 386 kernel, then knowing the pci > device id would be a start. > We're OK with 386, I downgraded 9ants to 32 bits and it seems to work pretty well. A good opportunity to benchmark 64-bit versus 32-bit on the same hardware, something that has got me curious. (Incidentally, does 9ants support Go as robustly as 9legacy does? Go is critical to my work and so is SSH - sshnet, was it, that provided port forwarding? That's another critical feature, so may be OpenVPN, but so far that has been too slow on Linux, so it's not a priority.) > the boot process is nothing special. we have a bootloader that loads > the kernel. the loader uses BIOS/EFI calls to get the kernel from the > boot media so that it does not need drivers. once the kernel > is taking over, it needs a driver. > Got that sorted, I need to get more familiar with the EFI and GUID stuff, I know EFI is a trap, but GUID seems an innocent bit of collateral benefit. So now I have a somewhat dated instance of 9front on my desktop courtesy of the VXL Percio diskless workstation, about as limited a piece of hardware as you can find. That will provide an honest workbenchin itself. It multiboots various Plan 9 combinations off compact flash. That's in addition to a working version of 9ants which will be promoted to 64-bit once I have a network adapter in it that is supported by all OSes: Linux Mint, NetBSD and 9ants. What I need next is definitely Atheros network support, I'm not a great Wi-Fi fan, but that can't be discounted. I'll start by finding out what seems to ail the elnk3 driver on amd64. I have half a dozen 3c905[bc] adapters I'd rather not just discard. Next, a long way off, is bringing 9front, 9ant and 9legacy closer together, with Minix-3 and NetBSD as even more distant convergences. Small steps, that is all I can promise. Keep in mind where Minix-3 lurks, before you discount it... Lucio. PS: Thanks everyone for your support, I'd like to list you all by name, but I'm sure to leave someone out. Still, we're a community and everyone contributes, so my thanks go to all, really, trolls included.
