Re: [9fans] pcengines apu2

2025-02-08 Thread ron minnich
if anyone has the ipxe setup for 9pc64 I'm interested. I get nothing on boot, I'm assuming I need some args. I did try imagargs 9pc64 console=0 but no good. On Sat, Feb 8, 2025 at 11:07 AM ron minnich wrote: > I'll give it another go. The pcengines are EOL, THANK YOU X86 VENDORS, but > they're

Re: [9fans] cheap, usb-c powered, quiet, virtualization capable, multicore intel x86 PCs

2025-02-08 Thread Carl Phillips
I have a GMKtec G3 N100 mini pc which has been running 9front ok for the past few months. It is very cheap (I paid £63 delivered to the UK with 8GB RAM, 256GB NVME installed), x86, quiet, virtualization capable and multicore. It's not usb-c powered out the box but you can use a barrel jack to

[9fans] NIX this morning

2025-02-08 Thread ron minnich
The new default branch is 9front. https://github.com/rminnich/9front I just pushed a commit that: 1. has the execac command use sysr1 for now 2. drops bootrc into a shell before root is mounted so you can poke around and run execac 3. adds ratrace, execac, and date When you build nix, look in sys

[9fans] Re: NIX this morning

2025-02-08 Thread ron minnich
ok that's fixed and: % ratrace -c execac -c 1 /bin/date 98 execac Running 204326 0x1prepage: base 0x7efff000 top 0x7000 prepage: base 0x20 top 0x40 prepage: base 0x40 top 0x406000 prepage: base 0x406000 top 0x406000 /bin/date: timezone: file does not exist: '/env/timezone'

Re: [9fans] Re: NIX this morning

2025-02-08 Thread Paul Lalonde
Nice! Congratulations! On Sat, Feb 8, 2025, 9:13 a.m. ron minnich wrote: > ok that's fixed and: > > % ratrace -c execac -c 1 /bin/date > 98 execac Running 204326 0x1prepage: base 0x7efff000 top 0x7000 > prepage: base 0x20 top 0x40 > prepage: base 0x40 top 0x406000 > pr

[9fans] pcengines apu2

2025-02-08 Thread ron minnich
Has anyone seen apu2 or apu4 work with a 9front, legacy, or other kernel lately? They used to work with harvey, but IIRC I had to do something there. BTW, kudos to 9front for cleaning up handling invalid msrs handling ... that little thing in trap is nice. (If you wonder what I mean, go take a l

[9fans] Re: pcengines apu2

2025-02-08 Thread i
I saw in http://www.collyer.net/who/geoff/9/ 9k specific code for apu2 I think. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tc854faa405e28b32-M7122b830e16322f477741e98 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscript

Re: [9fans] pcengines apu2

2025-02-08 Thread ori
I believe they work, but they're also EoL: https://www.pcengines.ch/eol.htm Quoth ron minnich : > Has anyone seen apu2 or apu4 work with a 9front, legacy, or other kernel > lately? > > They used to work with harvey, but IIRC I had to do something there. > > BTW, kudos to 9front for cleaning up h

Re: [9fans] pcengines apu2

2025-02-08 Thread Rodrigo G . López
hi ron, i used to run the fs on an apu2c4 (from 2017 till around 2021); no problems whatsoever. best, -rodri On Sat, Feb 8, 2025, 18:16 ron minnich wrote: > Has anyone seen apu2 or apu4 work with a 9front, legacy, or other kernel > lately? > > They used to work with harvey, but IIRC I had to

Re: [9fans] pcengines apu2

2025-02-08 Thread ron minnich
I'll give it another go. The pcengines are EOL, THANK YOU X86 VENDORS, but they're still quite nice. On Sat, Feb 8, 2025 at 10:39 AM Rodrigo G. López wrote: > hi ron, > > i used to run the fs on an apu2c4 (from 2017 till around 2021); no > problems whatsoever. > > > best, > > -rodri > > On Sat,

Re: [9fans] NIX OS: TODOs

2025-02-08 Thread ron minnich
if you want to see an interesting example of the kind of machine we had in mind for NIX: https://www.esperanto.ai/technology/ 4 superscalar risc-v cores, and about 1000 basic scalar cores. Pretty interesting. On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 9:21 AM ron minnich wrote: > I checked in execac system call

Re: [9fans] pcengines apu2

2025-02-08 Thread ron minnich
I take it back :-) if anyone has a plan9.ini for netbooting apu2, that would help. 9bootpxe is working so far. On Sat, Feb 8, 2025 at 12:23 PM ron minnich wrote: > if anyone has the ipxe setup for 9pc64 I'm interested. I get nothing on > boot, I'm assuming I need some args. I did try > imagargs

Re: [9fans] pcengines apu2

2025-02-08 Thread Conor Williams
i got a little arm processor hand held device -- something like what you are thinking about I think,... trying to get P9 ARM onto it at the minute... On Sat, Feb 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM wrote: > I believe they work, but they're also EoL: > https://www.pcengines.ch/eol.htm > > Quoth ron minnich : > >