Did you check GitHub/rminnich/9front 9front branch?
On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 21:52 B. Atticus Grobe <grobe...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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-M50c80d660d7b855f504e953c Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
