Re: [9fans] ppxeload nix

2013-02-07 Thread David du Colombier
Yes , but "9pxeload" is now called "9boot". You can usually specify a TFTP server in your DHCP configuration (for example, using "next-server" in ISC DHCPd).

Re: [9fans] ppxeload nix

2013-02-07 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Feb 7 01:35:45 EST 2013, bhunts...@mail2.cu-portland.edu wrote: > I've downloaded the nix bits from http://code.google.com/p/nix-os/ and i think this is active any longer. however the 9atom cd has an active copy of nix. i know that ian ennis booted /amd64/9term into a vmware fusion virtu

Re: [9fans] ppxeload nix

2013-02-07 Thread John Floren
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:33 PM, Benjamin Huntsman wrote: > Network boot from Intel E1000 > Copyright (C) 2003-2008 VMware, Inc. > Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Intel Corporation > > CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 0C 29 D2 AC AC GUID: 564DA193-9D84-E902-D0E8-F20CCBD2ACAC > CLIENT IP: 10.0.0.133 MASK: 255.255.255

Re: [9fans] ASCII character conversion program in assembler

2013-02-07 Thread Anthony Martin
I have a few suggestions and corrections. 1. You have to actually allocate space for your local variables. This means either calculating how much space you'll need and annotating the TEXT pseudo-instruction or decrementing the SP as you go. 2. Calls into the kernel must look like normal

Re: [9fans] ppxeload nix

2013-02-07 Thread Benjamin Huntsman
>i think this is active any longer So what is the current "official" location to obtain the amd64 Plan 9? Pardon the question, but I've been sort-of absent lately and haven't been keeping as close of tabs on Plan 9 developments as I used to... Many thanks! -Ben

Re: [9fans] ppxeload nix

2013-02-07 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Feb 7 16:36:23 EST 2013, bhunts...@mail2.cu-portland.edu wrote: > >i think this is active any longer > > So what is the current "official" location to obtain the amd64 Plan 9? i would say 9atom. to the best of my knowledge that's what lsub, coraid & i are using for day-to-day cpu servers

Re: [9fans] ppxeload nix

2013-02-07 Thread John Floren
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Benjamin Huntsman wrote: >>i think this is active any longer > > So what is the current "official" location to obtain the amd64 Plan 9? > Depends who you ask. When the google code repo dropped out of use, http://lsub.org/ls/nix.html became a good place to get the s

Re: [9fans] ppxeload nix

2013-02-07 Thread David du Colombier
> Erik's 9atom which distributes basically the same source as you can > find on lsub.org (because he wrote a lot of the patches for the lsub > fork) Erik's NIX is quite different from the current code at Lsub and there are a number of additions, mostly related to terminals. In particular, as Erik

Re: [9fans] ppxeload nix

2013-02-07 Thread David du Colombier
> So what is the current "official" location to obtain the amd64 Plan 9? Just to sum things up a little, the NIX repositories are: Noah's original NIX repository: https://bitbucket.org/npe/nix Google Code repository: http://code.google.com/p/nix-os/ Lsub repository: http://lsub.org/

Re: [9fans] ppxeload nix

2013-02-07 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
Nevertheless, if someone wants a 64bit kernel that could be used as a terminal, I'd say Erik's copy would be fine for that. On Feb 7, 2013, at 11:42 PM, David du Colombier <0in...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Erik's 9atom which distributes basically the same source as you can >> find on lsub.org (becau

Re: [9fans] ppxeload nix

2013-02-07 Thread erik quanstrom
> In particular, as Erik said earlier (and I just confirmed it), > the e820 change made it incompatible with the current 9boot > from Bell Labs as is (which works fine with googlecode/lsub code). unfortunate, but requiring gnu multiboot? that doesn't seem right. :-) it might be the wrong call, b

Re: [9fans] ppxeload nix

2013-02-07 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
Just to let others know, Erik has everything the lsub nix had. If you want a terminal, you might just pick that one. We are in the process of removing features from the nix at lsub to make it become a more researchy kernel; and we will focus on servers, not terminals. for terminals, there are n

Re: [9fans] ppxeload nix

2013-02-07 Thread David du Colombier
> http://www.9legacy.org/9legacy/patch/nix.diff > > The AHCI driver depends on Erik's libfis, which you can > get from 9atom or this patch: > > http://www.9legacy.org/9legacy/patch/libfis.diff I forgot to mention it also depends on the following patch to be able to compile the Plan 9 kernels usi