Re: [9fans] Cute plan9/inferno client?

2011-01-29 Thread Venkatesh Srinivas
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:56 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Fri Jan 28 16:33:03 EST 2011, m...@acm.jhu.edu wrote: > > > > > > The Tegra is probably one of the best ARM chips out there... > > > > > > > No it isn't; the Tegra lacks NEON. > > why do you think simd support is key? we have simd on x86

Re: [9fans] Cute plan9/inferno client?

2011-01-29 Thread Lawrence E. Bakst
At 4:31 PM -0500 1/28/11, Venkatesh Srinivas wrote: >The Tegra is probably one of the best ARM chips out there... > > >No it isn't; the Tegra lacks NEON. > >-- vs 1. I should have said: "The Tegra 2 is probably one of the best ARM based SOCs out there ..." 2. It lacks NEON because it doesn't ne

Re: [9fans] Cute plan9/inferno client?

2011-01-29 Thread Venkatesh Srinivas
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Lawrence E. Bakst wrote: > At 4:31 PM -0500 1/28/11, Venkatesh Srinivas wrote: > >The Tegra is probably one of the best ARM chips out there... > > > > > >No it isn't; the Tegra lacks NEON. > > > >-- vs > > 1. I should have said: > > "The Tegra 2 is probably one of

Re: [9fans] Cute plan9/inferno client?

2011-01-29 Thread erik quanstrom
> > 2. It lacks NEON because it doesn't need that ISA. The chip has an > > integrated GPU which does the same thing a different way. > > > > 1. Oh, huh, the Tegra 2 is available now? I wasn't aware, sorry about that. > Looks like it is A9-based, yay. > > 2. If your task is amenable to the integra

Re: [9fans] PUSH sources for Plan 9

2011-01-29 Thread Akshat Kumar
Hi Noah, I pinged you offline. Not sure if you got my messages. It seems that your fan-in operator creates the pipes, then they're passed along to the ORF and IRF through argv (via the fan-out and fan-in respectively). I've checked that indeed the pipes are being created, by running push -r ... a

Re: [9fans] PUSH sources for Plan 9

2011-01-29 Thread Noah Evans
Hey Akshat, I received your previous message, I just haven't had time to answer it. The reason that is failing is because the arguments are one stack frame above the commands being executed. The value should be: Xsimple (echo 14 10 6 ) I promise I'm not ignoring you. Noah On Sat, Jan 29,

[9fans] HELP: recoving important header file rudely clobbered by mk

2011-01-29 Thread smiley
I'm REALLY hoping someone can help me with this... For some reason, mk decided it would be fun to run the following command for me: 8l $LDFLAGS -o important.h important.h.8 Of course, this overwrote important.h, a file containing C macros I spent all day writing. I tried mounting dump, but get

Re: [9fans] HELP: recoving important header file rudely clobbered by mk

2011-01-29 Thread Steve Simon
sorry this happened to you. is this native plan9, p9p, or 9vx? so, are you using fossil or do you run cwfs or kfs or somthing else? do you definitely have fossil and venti running? a missing archive/main looks like you don't have archival dumps enabled in fossil.conf? perhaps you have snapshot

Re: [9fans] HELP: recoving important header file rudely clobbered by mk

2011-01-29 Thread erik quanstrom
> For some reason, mk decided it would be fun to run the following command > for me: > > 8l $LDFLAGS -o important.h important.h.8 sounds like important.h was the target and a rule like this was chosen: %: %.$O $CC $CFLAGS $stem $stem.$O > Fortunately, there's a magic string in important

[9fans] RESOLVED: recoving important header file rudely clobbered by mk

2011-01-29 Thread smiley
smi...@zenzebra.mv.com writes: > Of course, this overwrote important.h, a file containing C macros I > spent all day writing. Never mind! I was able to recover the file from Linux: term% aux/listen1 tcp!headache!1234 cat /dev/sdC0/fossil I then used netcat on the Linux end and got the data bac

Re: [9fans] RESOLVED: recoving important header file rudely clobbered by mk

2011-01-29 Thread Steve Simon
yep, dump is great. sadly there is a bug in fossil that makes it unreliable if snapshots ar enabled - it locks up once a month or so, dumps work fine though. free beer to the first person to find the fossil deadlock... -Steve

Re: [9fans] Cute plan9/inferno client?

2011-01-29 Thread Noah Evans
Can list members treat each other with greater civility? The list has been quite nice lately. Noah On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Venkatesh Srinivas wrote: > On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Lawrence E. Bakst > wrote: >> >> At 4:31 PM -0500 1/28/11, Venkatesh Srinivas wrote: >> >The Tegra

Re: [9fans] HELP: recoving important header file rudely clobbered by mk

2011-01-29 Thread smiley
"Steve Simon" writes: > is this native plan9, p9p, or 9vx? I'm running the stock 386 distribution, on a real hard drive on real hardware. I figured learning a new OS would be simpler without having to think about what's virtual versus what's real, versus what's Linux. > do you definitely have

Re: [9fans] HELP: recoving important header file rudely clobbered by mk

2011-01-29 Thread John Floren
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 5:16 PM, wrote: > "Steve Simon" writes: > >> is this native plan9, p9p, or 9vx? > > I'm running the stock 386 distribution, on a real hard drive on real > hardware.  I figured learning a new OS would be simpler without having > to think about what's virtual versus what's

Re: [9fans] HELP: recoving important header file rudely clobbered by mk

2011-01-29 Thread erik quanstrom
> > I have no idea.  I just chose the default installation options, > > installing from the CD following the install instructions.  As far as I > > know, "Venti" is a volcano in Italy. > > > > In that case, you'll only have Fossil installed. and here i thought that venti was a swimming pool of ra

Re: [9fans] HELP: recoving important header file rudely clobbered by mk

2011-01-29 Thread John Floren
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 8:49 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> > I have no idea.  I just chose the default installation options, >> > installing from the CD following the install instructions.  As far as I >> > know, "Venti" is a volcano in Italy. >> > >> >> In that case, you'll only have Fossil instal