[9fans] Factotum Using identity vs token

2014-04-25 Thread Vlad Giszpenc
Hi, Has anyone tried to make Factotum use Identity based encryption? See http://crypto.stanford.edu/pbc/. The idea would be to make it a private key generator. Then everything on the network could use a URI to encrypt stuff. PKI would still be needed to secure identity of the PKG but it stil

Re: [9fans] GPT partitions

2014-04-25 Thread erik quanstrom
On Fri Apr 25 12:12:05 EDT 2014, cinap_len...@felloff.net wrote: > there was a multiboot header there but it didnt work. the problem is that > multiboot > loader doesnt align the data segment of the kernel image to page size. the > kernel > needs to move the data segment early before entering mai

Re: [9fans] GPT partitions

2014-04-25 Thread cinap_lenrek
there was a multiboot header there but it didnt work. the problem is that multiboot loader doesnt align the data segment of the kernel image to page size. the kernel needs to move the data segment early before entering main(). -- cinap

[9fans] 9atom ISO images?

2014-04-25 Thread arnold
Hi. What is the status of the 9atom ISO images? I have a laptop that I think is too old to boot from USB that perhaps I can put Plan 9 on... Thanks, Arnold

Re: [9fans] 9atom ISO images?

2014-04-25 Thread erik quanstrom
> What is the status of the 9atom ISO images? > > I have a laptop that I think is too old to boot from USB that perhaps > I can put Plan 9 on... you can try. the technique i used to help install on a mac pro, which will also not boot from usb except efi, is to put the usb image on disk, and edit

Re: [9fans] GPT partitions

2014-04-25 Thread erik quanstrom
On Fri Apr 25 11:52:48 EDT 2014, cinap_len...@felloff.net wrote: > 9front pc and pc64 kernels can be loaded by multiboot loader like grub (thanks > to aiju). plan9.ini can be passed as a module. it uses the multiboot memory > map > as well. theres no program to read in the gpt partition table yet

Re: [9fans] GPT partitions

2014-04-25 Thread cinap_lenrek
9front pc and pc64 kernels can be loaded by multiboot loader like grub (thanks to aiju). plan9.ini can be passed as a module. it uses the multiboot memory map as well. theres no program to read in the gpt partition table yet but that should be easy. all you need is a small program to parse the gpt

Re: [9fans] GPT partitions

2014-04-25 Thread erik quanstrom
> Does any of the Plan9 variants support booting from a GPT partition nowadays? > I have not experimented with EFI boot yet on my primary OS but as far as I > have read, this could also avoid chainloading bootloaders - any experience > with this? > > I am also interested in the 64-bit HDD imag

Re: [9fans] GSoC '14

2014-04-25 Thread Conor Williams
I am a little late on the reply to this Steve, but most of the ideas from the list below were observations turned suggestions of mine compiled from around 2003 when I was studying Plan 9. There would have been less code in the contrib at that stage... for one... fgb seems to have most of his work

[9fans] GPT partitions

2014-04-25 Thread Jens Staal
Dear all, I am interested in moving from running Plan9 in a VM to (try to) running on bare metal but since I am on a laptop with a single HDD and I play around with a couple of different things, I need to use GPT instead of MBR to avoid the silly 4 partition limit (since Plan9 can not be on an