On Fri Feb 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM CST, ron minnich wrote: > so, this evening, I ran /bin/date on a NIX Application Core (AC) for the > first time in 14 years, on core 1 of my t420s. There are still issues, and > work to do, but ... this was nice to see. > > If you want to help, you can pull github.com:rminnich/9front, and do a > rebase on my 9front branch to 9front tip of tree, see if it builds, and see > if it boots. Feel free to submit a PR if you do that.
ron, i think you may need to push your local repo to github; the last commit i can see is from 7 feb, and doesn't build at all even prior to a rebase. it seems to be missing definitions in headers for the execac syscall. my apologies if i'm just missing something obvious about building it. > > My qemu command (from a script, hence the $*) > qemu-system-x86_64 -kernel ~/Downloads/9pc64 -smp 4 -nographic -serial > mon:stdio -cpu qemu64,+monitor -append console=0 -m 16384 $* > > Other help: identity good netboot x86 boxes, on which NIX will boot, that > won't break my bank account. Sadly, I've not had time to figure out why my > pc engines won't boot. I am pretty sure it's plan 9 not being happy with > the coreboot RSDT, but ... who knows. > i haven't yet been able to build nix, but 9front runs very well (and netboots reliably) on HP t620 thick clients; these can be found on ebay for around $30, usually with a 16GB mSATA SSD and 8G of RAM. most have a quad-core AMD Jaguar cpu clocked at 1.5GHz, although there is a dual-core variant clocked slightly higher. obviously, they're not powerful, but they're very inexpensive and very reliable. they're also passively cooled without any fans or noisemakers. if all you're looking for is cheap with multiple cores, i'd consider these. i have 4 (of the quad-core variant), and always have to stop myself from buying more. if you do buy any, ensure they include the power brick. most sellers do so (at that $30 price point), but if they don't include it you're better of finding another seller as a replacement is as much as the computer. > BTW, should the T420s wifi run at 6 Mbps? that seems low. > > Thanks to Paul for breaking some things loose. ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T77db1310be5d11a2-Mb5f95ec50cf72f31248c6ae6 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
