Re: [9fans] Forks of Plan 9 (Was: 9vx instability)

2011-11-25 Thread Lucio De Re
> Also, we are trying to make our changes in a way that they could > help the stock distribution, which is, again, what I said would be > better than doing them in incompatible ways. I understand this is going to be difficult, I don't expect anyone to take this on right now, but I still maintain t

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Related Work

2011-11-25 Thread Peter A. Cejchan
sorry, I never tried cross-compiling. I started here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_compiler#GCC_and_cross_compilation, and http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~milom/cross-compile.html what should be switch --target=some-target set to? > your best bet is to cross-compile on Linux. set GOOS to plan9

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Related Work

2011-11-25 Thread Lucio De Re
> sorry, I never tried cross-compiling. I started here: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_compiler#GCC_and_cross_compilation, and > http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~milom/cross-compile.html > > what should be switch --target=some-target set to? > >> your best bet is to cross-compile on Linux. set

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Related Work

2011-11-25 Thread andrey mirtchovski
> sorry, I never tried cross-compiling. I started here: $ cd go/src $ hg sync > /dev/null 2>&1 # places you at tip $ export GOOS=plan9 $ export GOARCH=386 $ ./make.bash > /dev/null conflicts: 3 shift/reduce $ cat > /tmp/t.go package main func main() { println("hello"); } $ cd /tmp $ 8g t.go $ 8l t

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Related Work

2011-11-25 Thread Peter A. Cejchan
$ ./make.bash > /dev/null make: *** [executable.o] Error 1 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs do i need to merge rminnich-9go with go.googlecode.com/hg/ go??? thanks, peter

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Related Work

2011-11-25 Thread andrey mirtchovski
my instructions are for a pure go tree (a clone from googlecode without any modifications). the redirection to /dev/null is to save some email space, you don't need to have it in your tests.

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Related Work

2011-11-25 Thread andrey mirtchovski
also, i'm cross-compiling go for plan9 on linux/osx. i apologize, we shouldn't have gotten out of sync so quickly. On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 1:59 AM, andrey mirtchovski wrote: > my instructions are for a pure go tree (a clone from googlecode > without any modifications). the redirection to /dev/nul

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Related Work

2011-11-25 Thread Peter A. Cejchan
bash: ./make.bash: No such file or directory I guess I should merge rminnich-9go with go.googlecode.com/hg/ go ?? thanks, ++pac

Re: [9fans] Forks of Plan 9 (Was: 9vx instability)

2011-11-25 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Lucio De Re wrote: > hereas any changes to > the original Plan 9 distribution affects my working environment > directly, which makes it trivial to submit changes if I develop them. > That's what I was saying. We are working in nix in such a way that we hope the co

Re: [9fans] Forks of Plan 9 (Was: 9vx instability)

2011-11-25 Thread Lucio De Re
> That's what I was saying. We are working in nix in such a way that we > hope the code we are working on could be used by the stock Plan 9 > in the future. So, it's a fork, but we are still trying to cooperate with > everyone else. Branching seems to be a black hole, though: there is no easy way

Re: [9fans] Forks of Plan 9 (Was: 9vx instability)

2011-11-25 Thread Charles Forsyth
A timely discussion before producing any code is usually more profitable. On 25 November 2011 08:06, Lucio De Re wrote: > And Code Review ought to be at the core of it.

Re: [9fans] Forks of Plan 9 (Was: 9vx instability)

2011-11-25 Thread Charles Forsyth
surely it only makes sense that when forks appear the knives come out.

Re: [9fans] Forks of Plan 9 (Was: 9vx instability)

2011-11-25 Thread erik quanstrom
> (I know Erik has adopted at least the BCM57xx driver for 9atom). I'm although it's in there, it doesn't work with the bcm57xx hardware i have. so cavet emptor. - erik

Re: [9fans] Forks of Plan 9 (Was: 9vx instability)

2011-11-25 Thread Lucio De Re
> surely it only makes sense that when forks appear the knives come out. I guess this is part of the reason I follow 9fans so avidly :-) ++L

Re: [9fans] Forks of Plan 9 (Was: 9vx instability)

2011-11-25 Thread Lucio De Re
> A timely discussion before producing any code is usually more profitable. > Unarguably. But a code review system makes sure that lack of discussion is corrected before it is too late. And prior discussion seems pretty scarce around Plan 9. Unless of course IRC is where it all happens, in whic

Re: [9fans] Forks of Plan 9 (Was: 9vx instability)

2011-11-25 Thread erik quanstrom
On Fri Nov 25 01:47:12 EST 2011, cinap_len...@gmx.de wrote: > drivers should be pretty portable. > > there are more drastic changes like the eqlock function > that touched many places. its basicly a normal qlock() > that can error() out when the process gets a note or > gets killed. ha! i've wr

Re: [9fans] Forks of Plan 9 (Was: 9vx instability)

2011-11-25 Thread Stanley Lieber
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 7:55 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> (I know Erik has adopted at least the BCM57xx driver for 9atom). I'm > > although it's in there, it doesn't work with the bcm57xx hardware i have. > so cavet emptor. You might want to re-synch. Recent changes have caused the BCM5755 in my

Re: [9fans] 9vx instability

2011-11-25 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
A good clue might have been that they're "Sharepoint" experts. On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Stanley Lieber wrote: > > The article linked above is an example of poor journalism, complete > with misquotes and fabricated quotes. >

Re: [9fans] Forks of Plan 9 (Was: 9vx instability)

2011-11-25 Thread erik quanstrom
still not working; doesn't even reset. i've taken a pass at cleaning up the code. the biggest change is using style(6) formatting. also, coherence() is missing when entering ring entries, since the posted write of the ring ptr can pass the memory writes of the ring entry, from the perspective of

Re: [9fans] Forks of Plan 9 (Was: 9vx instability)

2011-11-25 Thread Steve Simon
re: etherbcm.c thanks, Again it will have to wait till monday for me to try. BTW I'am not sure if I emphasised enough how grateful I am for all your patient work in getting SSE working. Its great to make progress on this, though the performance of opera + linuxemu + equis (fgb's X11 server) is

Re: [9fans] Forks of Plan 9 (Was: 9vx instability)

2011-11-25 Thread erik quanstrom
> BTW I'am not sure if I emphasised enough how grateful I am for all your > patient work in getting SSE working. really it's no problem. it's something that i'd worked on before, and had to leave behind. ideally, i'd like to be able to use sse with 8[acl]. but that means that i (a) have to figu

Re: [9fans] Forks of Plan 9 (Was: 9vx instability)

2011-11-25 Thread erik quanstrom
fixed for my hw. the really key bit was setting the endianness properly. this may have been set up by your pxe hardware or bios, if your bcm chip was built-in. i've updated 9atom with this driver. - erik/* * Broadcom BCM57xx * Not implemented: * proper fatal error handling * multiple ring