Re: [9fans] Plan 9 minimum hardware -- 68K or (cough) 6809?

2025-01-30 Thread joel . rees
Thanks. My first memory that 32-bit addressing was necessary was correct. That's the information I needed. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T6f94b0ead58544b4-Mb4d51a57ed5a1e941d48aa87 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicb

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 minimum hardware -- 68K or (cough) 6809?

2025-01-30 Thread Anthony Sorace
Plan 9 has run on 68K systems, at least an earlier edition of the system. Check out the 2nd edition paper about the various ports:http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/2nd_edition/portThere was a compiler but no kernel for the 68000; the existing kernel assumed 68020 or better.I know I have run 3rd edition o

[9fans] Virtio 9P driver

2025-01-30 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
Is there a virtio driver for the "9P Transport" subsystem (type "09")? -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T5aca8c00a7084d5e-Mcb3955e1ac61464cb9e68895 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

[9fans] Plan 9 minimum hardware -- 68K or (cough) 6809?

2025-01-30 Thread joel . rees
I had the idea that the minimum hardware that Plan 9 had run in was 80386, but I look and it says minimum is x86 with 16M. And I seem to recall that the original did run on 8086 (which would have been less than 16M at the time). So I'm wondering if anyone ever implemented it on 68K. And I'm als

Re: [9fans] Question about rimport

2025-01-30 Thread Steve Simon
do you have ethernet on your embedded systems? i did embedded development using plan9 as my desktop for years. being able to mount the embedded system is a great thing.i just compiled u9fs for the embedded system and it just worked.at one point we had a multiplexed terminal and file sharing interfa

Re: [9fans] Question about rimport

2025-01-30 Thread Jacob Moody
On 1/30/25 11:14, Matt Wilbur wrote: > Hello All, > > I am trying to learn more about Plan 9 by forcing it into my day-to-day work > environment. > I work on embedded systems that I typically use over a serial connection.  I > have a 9front CPU server set up that is connected to a device using a

[9fans] Question about rimport

2025-01-30 Thread Matt Wilbur
Hello All, I am trying to learn more about Plan 9 by forcing it into my day-to-day work environment. I work on embedded systems that I typically use over a serial connection. I have a 9front CPU server set up that is connected to a device using a USB Serial device (standard FTDI stuff). There is