and tim roberts on an unrelated topic is a bunch of un-ethical hackers diminishing the intellect of the humanity /c:202109200851 hack the planet my fiends...
On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 8:45 AM Conor Williams <conor.willi...@gmail.com> wrote: > i figured out the random hack which messed me up 12 years ago 2 days ago > /c:f20 > and the buda bug is fixed on my system - took me 3 days strait to find > it... > and the fuseblk hack took a while /c:2021 > > On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 8:39 AM Conor Williams <conor.willi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> if it is a vfat filesystem it is ok.... >> >> On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 8:37 AM Conor Williams <conor.willi...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> some of the fuseblk disc/k drivers/modules on peppermint which is a >>> flavour of ubuntu >>> are not even in the kernel space and there are mount.XYZ processes left >>> open which are >>> wide open to attack (with # fuser -p <PID>) /c09 >>> for those chips tings >>> >>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 8:24 AM hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> i think the main reason people are willing to fall for the android >>>> platform is bec. there is no good long-term supply of updated phone >>>> hardware with backwards-compatible interfaces. >>>> >>>> a lot of qualcomm and mediatek chipsets are being built, but instead >>>> of documentation they only ship half-baked linux drivers, which are >>>> often not even mainlined. >>>> >>>> those linux drivers are already hard to make work on actual linux >>>> distributions, or even on android distributions. >>>> >>>> who wants to reverse-engineer the hardware over and over again based >>>> on such linux drivers... >>>> >>>> On 9/20/21, Ethan Gardener <eeke...@fastmail.fm> wrote: >>>> > tl;dr: forget inferno, port plan 9 to the pine phone. >>>> > >>>> > On Mon, Sep 20, 2021, at 6:43 AM, Dave Eckhardt wrote: >>>> >> > Anyone know if this project went anywhere? >>>> >> > >>>> >> > https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~412/lectures/L05_Purge_Proposal.pdf >>>> > >>>> > I had to laugh at one of the slides. Inferno running natively on "x86 >>>> > supercomputer"? I think implementing multicore support would be a >>>> first >>>> > step, not to mention 64-bit! While it would be nice if those jobs >>>> were done, >>>> > they will take time and effort. Overall, if porting natively, I see >>>> little >>>> > sense in preferring Inferno to Plan 9, especially as Plan 9 already >>>> supports >>>> > 64-bit multicore. >>>> > >>>> >> Sadly, not. One issue is that modern Android releases don't >>>> >> support 32-bit executables, and at the time that project was >>>> >> attempted Inferno was somewhat 32-bit (I haven't looked since). >>>> > >>>> > Recalling the issues Hellaphone had and the time it took, I'm of the >>>> opinion >>>> > that getting Inferno to work on any given phone's Linux kernel is >>>> hardly >>>> > more worthwhile than porting it directly to the hardware. The kernels >>>> have >>>> > undocumented interfaces. >>>> > >>>> > A current thread on OSdev (operating system development) forums is >>>> looking >>>> > at phones. It's a little rambly, but it reports on some encouraging >>>> things. >>>> > Lots of "baseband processors" (the phone-network communication >>>> subsystems) >>>> > have documented interfaces. There are at least 2 phones available now >>>> which >>>> > are fully open for operating system development: the PinePhone and the >>>> > Librem 5. (5 is the screen size.) Of the 2, the Pine Phone seems >>>> better, not >>>> > least because it can boot from the SD card; useful for testing. >>>> > https://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=53251 >>>> > >>>> > There's also the option of building your own phone out of components. >>>> The >>>> > thread has some info. I'm guessing most here would prefer a PinePhone. >>>> > >>>> >> But I think I saw some recent-ish Inferno-on-Android activity here: >>>> >> >>>> >> https://github.com/bhgv/Inferno-OS-bhgv >>>> > >>>> > That's probably a good source of code. bhgv is a freelance programmer >>>> who >>>> > was very interested in Inferno and made several improvements including >>>> > Truetype fonts. The last I heard was he tried to find paid work >>>> involving >>>> > Inferno but couldn't, so he didn't have time to work on it. ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T39aec8f3f9d8503d-Mc3b25dbbddfd8754a6656ddc Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
