On Sat Mar 1, 2025 at 9:57 AM CST, ron minnich wrote: > Did you check GitHub/rminnich/9front 9front branch? That would appear to be my mistake; I was on the `ron_nix' branch, and only checked the `front' branch. Thanks for straightening me out!
> > > 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-M28dba5b415625159b334873e Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
