Re: [9fans] ODROID-U2

2013-10-14 Thread Bakul Shah
On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 22:06:14 PDT Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > > Is anyone porting Plan 9 to this thing? Same question but for Beaglebone Black.

Re: [9fans] ODROID-U2

2013-10-14 Thread erik quanstrom
> Same question but for Beaglebone Black. i have one, and intend to get to it real soon now™. but there are so many projects in the queue. it might be obsolete before i get to it. - erik

[9fans] Ritchie and Plan 9

2013-10-14 Thread Sakis Kasampalis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Are there any notes/facts about why Dennis Ritchie was not more involved with Plan 9? According to his page http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/ he only contributed a few bits and pieces (whatever that means). I don't know when his health problems started

[9fans] Purely historical question on variadic function notation

2013-10-14 Thread fgergo
Who invented ... notation in c? I'll appreciate any hints. thanks, Gergő

[9fans] "On a clear disk, you can seek forever"

2013-10-14 Thread Dave Eckhardt
Do I have my stupid hat on today, or can somebody reproduce this? It seems as if the fossil partition on the official USB installer image is full of zeroes? Also the fscfg partition, though that bothers me a little less. term% hget http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/download/usbdisk.bz2 > usbdisk.

[9fans] Parallels mysteriously loosing /dev/draw

2013-10-14 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
"You are at Witt's End ..." Well, I am. Parallels 8.0.18608. Mac OS 10.8.5. Plan 9 from roughly August 30. 9pcf kernel running flawlessly in a 2560x1440x32 full screen window, for weeks. Two days ago, I boot the VM and it (9pcf) decides there is no longer a frame buffer. It worked fine th

Re: [9fans] Parallels mysteriously loosing /dev/draw

2013-10-14 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Oct 14 20:58:07 EDT 2013, lyn...@orthanc.ca wrote: > "You are at Witt's End ..." > > Well, I am. Parallels 8.0.18608. Mac OS 10.8.5. Plan 9 from roughly > August 30. 9pcf kernel running flawlessly in a 2560x1440x32 full > screen window, for weeks. > > Two days ago, I boot the VM and it

Re: [9fans] Parallels mysteriously loosing /dev/draw

2013-10-14 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
does pci output show a vga device? Yes, and aux/vga shows all the VGA BIOS entries I expect to see.

Re: [9fans] Parallels mysteriously loosing /dev/draw

2013-10-14 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Oct 14 22:36:25 EDT 2013, lyn...@orthanc.ca wrote: > > does pci output show a vga device? > > Yes, and aux/vga shows all the VGA BIOS entries I expect to see. does "aux/vga -l $vgasize" do what you expect? - erik