Re: [9fans] Plan 9 5th Edition

2016-11-19 Thread cinap_lenrek
calling into firmware code is a big can of worms because firmware is full of bugs and only works with a small set of the major operating systems that the firmware authors tested it with. and theres not really an option for doing it from userspace. you need to call it from kernel mode ring zero an

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 5th Edition

2016-11-19 Thread Steve Simon
Cinap, I salute you and the good sense you write. -Steve > On 19 Nov 2016, at 16:57, cinap_len...@felloff.net wrote: > > calling into firmware code is a big can of worms because firmware is full > of bugs and only works with a small set of the major operating systems that > the firmware auth

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 5th Edition

2016-11-19 Thread Charlie Lin
Add one more: XHCI (USB 3.0) support, because the USB device driver currently does not support it, as stated in the USB man page in section 3 On Nov 16, 2016 17:27, "Charlie Lin" wrote: > Any plans for Plan 9 5th edition? > > My desires: > ISO-compliant C compiler and preprocessor > Port other p

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 5th Edition

2016-11-19 Thread Charlie Lin
Any features that should be incorporated into Plan 9? Also, where are the developers? Do they still maintain it? If not, I guess we assume the role of maintainers... On Nov 16, 2016 17:27, "Charlie Lin" wrote: > Any plans for Plan 9 5th edition? > > My desires: > ISO-compliant C compiler and pre

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 5th Edition

2016-11-19 Thread Steve Simon
Almost all of the original plan9 team work for google now. some of them work on Go, a language which has shared ancestry with alef and limbo. there are not maintainers as such, though some people do maintenance and some still develop new features and ports. plan9 is ad hoc. i still think it'

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 5th Edition

2016-11-19 Thread David Arnold
On 17 Nov 2016, at 12:18, Kurt H Maier wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 07:55:38PM -0500, Charlie Lin wrote: >> Also does anyone want to host the source tree in a repository? > > This sounds like a lot of work. Who would undertake this?? GitHub, GitLab, or BitBucket all provide gratis repository

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 5th Edition

2016-11-19 Thread Stanley Lieber
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Re: [9fans] Plan 9 5th Edition

2016-11-19 Thread hiro
i have heard good things about google code

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 5th Edition

2016-11-19 Thread Ryan Gonzalez
...which got shut down earlier this year: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html?m=1 -- Ryan (ライアン) Yoko Shimomura > ryo (supercell/EGOIST) > Hiroyuki Sawano >> everyone else http://kirbyfan64.github.io/ On Nov 19, 2016 8:41 PM, "hiro" <23h...@gmail.com> wrote: >

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 5th Edition

2016-11-19 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 10:26:36PM -0600, Ryan Gonzalez wrote: > ...which got shut down earlier this year: > > https://opensource.googleblog.com/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html?m=1 > This must have come to a shock to their users! I wonder what they did

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 5th Edition

2016-11-19 Thread James A. Robinson
9fans - best served dry.