[9fans] nix this morning

2025-02-17 Thread ron minnich
very, very close, I'm running procs on an AC, system calls are messed up somehow, but ... getting there. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T6ec06670104f2d9f-Mff33bf911b26268d9ef481ff Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.

Re: [9fans] Re: IWP9 Submissions Deadline extended to March 3rd

2025-02-17 Thread a
Since this has come up on the list several times, to turn my paper written with troff's ms macros into an A4 pdf, I did this: {echo '.pl 29.7c .nr PO 2.2c .nr LL 16.6c' cat paper.ms} | troff -ms | dpost | ps2pdf '-sPAPERSIZE=a4' > paper.a4.pdf I haven't tested it, but I think if you're using non-

[9fans] NIX this morning

2025-02-17 Thread ron minnich
I'm now able to run system calls, i.e AC makes system call, and TC runs it. Things are getting garbled, and at some point, things go wrong enough to panic the kernel. Not quite sure what's wrong, people are invited to take a look, particularly at pc64/nix.s but it's closer, by the day. Part of

Re: [9fans] Help starting with 9front

2025-02-17 Thread Cody Holliday
Hey Marco :) You diwbkiaded a qcow2 image, which is formatted to work with VM software (like qemu) There's no official ARM ISO on the list, but you could try the raspberry pi images! Good luck :) Cody On 17/02/2025 20:35, Marco Montevechi Filho wrote: Hi, I'm not sure if this list is the

Re: [9fans] Plan9/9front USB and UEFI

2025-02-17 Thread Jacob Moody
Is this on a recent kernel? Cinap did a bunch of work on USB this past December. If you're using the latest release (either you or tlaronde) then that has these changes. If you're running in to issues, you can set usbdebug= in plan9.ini to get diagnostic output on boot. so something like: usbdse

Re: [9fans] Help starting with 9front

2025-02-17 Thread adventures in9
Arm is a tricky architecture to port to. Arm sells the base cpu and an optional gpu to companies that then package it into a system-on-chip. Those companies add stuff like uart, i2c, spi, gpio, sd cards, usb, ethernet, hdmi, and so on. The 9Front arm64 qcow image holds the basic drivers for the

Re: [9fans] Plan9/9front USB and UEFI

2025-02-17 Thread adventures in9
The *nousbxhci= is exactly what I had to do to boot my AMD system without errors. I'm running mine as a headless cpu server. So I pxe boot, use a plan9.ini that uses nobootprompt=tls to automatically boot, and then compile a valid nvram file into the kernel to authenticate with the fileserver. b

[9fans] Help starting with 9front

2025-02-17 Thread Marco Montevechi Filho
Hi, I'm not sure if this list is the appropriate place for this discussion, but I am looking for help on how to start with 9front. I have four odroid n2+, aarch64 architecture which boot from sd cards. For now I'm using the manufacturer's image to boot an ubuntu 22.04 but I wish to make the clust