Hello All, I'm not sure how many on here are aware of the Pine SBC's. There are a few different variants of those. Now there are even pre-built laptops and a phone. There is a plan for a tablet too. https://www.pine64.org/
>From what I can tell the hardware is well documented, inexpensive and well enough designed. There is a vibrant community that is currently working on porting different Linux flavours to the phone. Once things are stable the pine store will begin selling branded versions of the phone with the OS pre-installed and a portion of the profit going to the community to continue their work. Has anyone managed to port Plan 9 to these SBC's? Does anyone have an idea of how much work this would involve considering there's already 64-bit arm toolchain in place and raspberry pi working? Thinking longer term, might it be interesting or useful to this community to support some of this hardware, even if it was just the Allwinner SoC's, representing two of the SBC's lines, the original laptop, tablet and phone? I wonder for example if it might spark some more interest for people to try Plan 9 if they knew that there is a source of inexpensive and standardized hardware and things work mostly out of the box. I have some more far-fetched thoughts. Please, be gentle. :) Perhaps this is an opportunity for the Plan 9 community to think what it would mean to run in a phone form factor. From my experience with the different phone OSes, there's quite a bit of similarity (home screens, grids of "apps"). Maybe this can be done in more of a Plan 9 style, simpler, smaller, more composable and no teletypes (or X). If the community comes up with something then we have a hardware line capable of running it. If the system is compelling enough to outsiders and a partnership is established with the pine group then that might be an avenue to fund continuing improvements. And then, what about the tablet? Thanks for reading. Cheers, Chris ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tca918503d5b19459-M5b625ce2ded89f4b59696e3a Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
