Re: [9fans] NIX experience

2025-01-05 Thread sirjofri
05.01.2025 21:48:24 Stuart Morrow : > On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 at 20:15, wrote: >> not sure I have any devices so performance critical that I'd want >> to dedicate a core to them. Benchmarks would be interseting. > > The curried syscall stuff came before the execac stuff. > > You were the one wanting u

Re: [9fans] NIX experience

2025-01-05 Thread Ron Minnich
I think it's ok to start with NIX, not NxM. On Sun, Jan 5, 2025 at 10:45 AM Stuart Morrow wrote: > > On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 at 16:39, Ron Minnich wrote: > > take that 2011 code, bring it to your plan 9 system, and see if > > But https://github.com/rminnich/nxm has 410 commits after 2011? My > under

Re: [9fans] NIX experience

2025-01-05 Thread Christopher Nielsen
I'm interested. Not 100% sure how much work I'll be able to do, but like you said, pace yourself and be consistent. :-) Cheers, Chris On Sun, Jan 5, 2025, 08:39 Ron Minnich wrote: > No need for money yet! > > Let's get this party started. I have queries in to ampere as to how we > can set up a

Re: [9fans] NIX experience

2025-01-05 Thread Stuart Morrow
On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 at 16:39, Ron Minnich wrote: > take that 2011 code, bring it to your plan 9 system, and see if But https://github.com/rminnich/nxm has 410 commits after 2011? My understanding was NIX and "NxM" aren't really different things, that they can be understood as just a name change si

Re: [9fans] NIX experience

2025-01-05 Thread ori
not sure I have any devices so performance critical that I'd want to dedicate a core to them. Benchmarks would be interseting. Quoth Stuart Morrow : > > This has been a very interesting discussion, thanks all. My offer > > remains: if anyone wants to revive NIX, I am happy to help. > > Am I the o

Re: [9fans] NIX experience

2025-01-05 Thread Jubal Biggs
I have a hookup at a company that builds modular compute nodes for DoD. They make X86 pluggable compute devices the size of a credit card and lots of types of clustering hardware for them. Each card is equivalent to a typical desktop PC. I've used Plan 9 on these devices successfully in the past. I

Re: [9fans] NIX experience

2025-01-05 Thread ori
Quoth Stuart Morrow : > On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 at 20:15, wrote: > > not sure I have any devices so performance critical that I'd want > > to dedicate a core to them. Benchmarks would be interseting. > > The curried syscall stuff came before the execac stuff. > > You were the one wanting userspace de

Re: [9fans] NIX experience

2025-01-05 Thread Stuart Morrow
On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 at 20:15, wrote: > not sure I have any devices so performance critical that I'd want > to dedicate a core to them. Benchmarks would be interseting. The curried syscall stuff came before the execac stuff. You were the one wanting userspace devdraw.

Re: [9fans] NIX experience

2025-01-05 Thread Ron Minnich
No need for money yet! Let's get this party started. I have queries in to ampere as to how we can set up a simulator. However, if someone wants to take a first step, take that 2011 code, bring it to your plan 9 system, and see if it builds. Again, the key here is a sustained effort. You don't hav

Re: [9fans] NIX experience

2025-01-05 Thread tlaronde
On Sun, Jan 05, 2025 at 08:36:17AM -0800, Ron Minnich wrote: > No need for money yet! > > Let's get this party started. I have queries in to ampere as to how we > can set up a simulator. However, if someone wants to take a first > step, take that 2011 code, bring it to your plan 9 system, and see

Re: [9fans] NIX experience

2025-01-05 Thread tlaronde
On Sat, Jan 04, 2025 at 01:29:19PM -0800, Ron Minnich wrote: > let's make a deal. > > I will talk to Ampere about what is the right way to simulate their > system. I have friends there. If we get enough people to get NIX > running on a simulator, then I'll try to figure out how to get us some > re

Re: [9fans] NIX experience

2025-01-05 Thread Daniel Maslowski via 9fans
There have been other ideas in similar directions over the years. E.g. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342759611_SCE-Comm_A_Real-Time_Inter-Core_Communication_Framework_for_Strictly_Partitioned_Multi-core_Processors about the concepts of ACs and CCs (communication cores). On Sun, 5 Jan 20