Regarding the status of 9vx on macOS and m1, I would suggest an alternative: use 9front or 9legacy with qemu. I use the 9legacy amd64 image with qemu on an M1 regularly and even that runs reasonably fast for my taste.
In the last few hours I tried to bring up the 9pi4 kernel using 'qemu-system-aarch64 -machine raspi4b ...' to compare amd64 vs arm64 emulations on M1. Unfortunately it gets stuck somewhere on accessing the disk image; I couldn't bring up raspbian bookworm either and others reported similar issues. Once that's fixed, I would guess that 9pi4 on qemu/M1 might be slightly faster than 9pc. If anyone wants to try bringing up 9pi4 on macos/m1, here are my rough notes: - Download 9Pi SD image (9legacy.rpi.bz2) from https://9legacy.org/download.html $ bunzip2 9legacy.rpi.bz2 $ qemu-img resize -f raw 9legacy.rpi 1G # or qemu will complain $ hdiutil attach -nomount 9legacy.rpi $ mkdir -p ~/A $ diskutil mount -mountPoint ~/A /dev/diskXXsY # the FAT partition $ cp ~/A/9pi4 . $ cp ~/A/bcm-2711-rpi-4-b.dtb . $ diskutil unmount /dev/diskXXsY $ hdiutil detach /dev/diskXX $ qemu-system-aarch64 -machine raspi4b -dtb bcm2711-rpi-4-b.dtb -kernel 9pi4 \ -drive file=9legacy.rpi,if=sd,format=raw \ -append 'readparts=1 nobootprompt=local user=glenda' On Mon, Jan 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM Ben Huntsman <b...@huntsmans.net> wrote: > > Hi guys- > I don't mean to take too much of a tangent, but since the nix-os repo > includes a pre-built copy of 9vx for OSX, has anyone looked at updating 9vx > to be able to compile on newer Mac OS versions? One of the big problems is > that it's very 32-bit which Apple doesn't support compiling for anymore... > > Thank you! > > -Ben > > 9fans / 9fans / see discussions + participants + delivery options Permalink ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Ta0815af2ea24cbbc-M31728313e14dc0aeb25bee24 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
