[9fans] Editing plan9.ini with UEFI shell

2025-02-18 Thread tlaronde
(I will make documentation about this later, but here is a quick tip.) Since on the hardware I'm testing (AM08PRO), Windows 11Pro comes pre-installed, I used it to edit the plan9.ini. This is easy in either configurations: - If it is in the FAT32 EFI System Partition (esp for 9front),

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

2025-02-18 Thread tlaronde
On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 04:31:41PM -0600, Jacob Moody wrote: > Is this on a recent kernel? Yes. I consulted the git log and saw that work had been done on xhci. So this is with the latest 2025-01-18 release. > Cinap did a bunch of work on USB this past December. > If you're using the latest relea

Re: [9fans] Editing plan9.ini with UEFI shell

2025-02-18 Thread ron minnich
by the way, you now have demonstrated the ease with which you can exploit uefi. drop any random DXE in there, and it runs. Harder on newer hardware, as it has protections against this sort of thing, but ... not as hard as might seem. note, also, you can build a linux kernel, with an embedded ini

[9fans] Physical cores vs. logical cores (hardware threads)

2025-02-18 Thread tlaronde
My knowledge being limited in this area, I guess that when x86 announces, say, 8 cores / 16 threads, the two threads by core are handled using superscalar (possibly pipelining): instead of executing in parallel multiple instructions of one program, they allow to execute in parallel multiple instruc

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

2025-02-18 Thread tlaronde
Yes, what you have done with the mini-pc you show on the youtube presentation should work with this AM08Pro. I just wanted (and want) to explore another path of installing, without PXE (that should work, but I have to totally boot to verify that the Realtek 2.5Gb Family ether interface works). Le

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

2025-02-18 Thread Edouard Klein
And here is the LaTeX to mimic roff output: %% Sans serif font, virtually no line spacing, small titles, small margins, no page numbers \renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault} \linespread{.8} \usepackage{titlesec} \titlelabel{\thetitle. } \titleformat*{\section}{\bf} \titleformat*{\subsection}