[9fans] Plan 9 5th Edition

Any plans for Plan 9 5th edition? My desires: ISO-compliant C compiler and preprocessor Port other programming languages (especially Go) to here Start a source code repository Port Git, SVN, Mercurial, et cetera to here

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 5th Edition

Add one more: EFI support Also, can Plan 9 be booted on Open Firmware? (Used on at least Sun SPARC workstations) On Nov 16, 2016 5:27 PM, "Charlie Lin" wrote: > Any plans for Plan 9 5th edition? > > My desires: > ISO-compliant C compiler and preprocessor > Port ot

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 5th Edition

Who has write access to the Wiki so that we can put the ideas in a TODO list? Also does anyone want to host the source tree in a repository? On Nov 16, 2016 7:21 PM, "Charlie Lin" wrote: > Add one more: EFI support > Also, can Plan 9 be booted on Open Firmware? (Used on at

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 5th Edition

I have the ANSI X3.159-1989 (C89), the ISO/IEC 9989:1990 (C90) (ANSI version) and ISO/IEC 9989:1999 (C99). The first one I found it at the National Technical Reports Library. The other two I do not know where I obtained them but I know they are on the Internet, as final standards, not drafts. On

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 5th Edition

My idea: implement a user-space filesystem to expose all EFI variables. As for the bootloader, any ideas? On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 7:30 PM, Kurt H Maier wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 07:21:14PM -0500, Charlie Lin wrote: > > Add one more: EFI support > > Also, can Plan 9 be

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 5th Edition

Like efivarfs in the Linux kernel On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 2:54 PM, Charlie Lin wrote: > My idea: implement a user-space filesystem to expose all EFI variables. > As for the bootloader, any ideas? > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 7:30 PM, Kurt H Maier wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 1

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 5th Edition

My mistake for hastiness: should we implement the filesystem in kernel or user space? On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Charlie Lin wrote: > Like efivarfs in the Linux kernel > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 2:54 PM, Charlie Lin > wrote: > >> My idea: implement a user-space fil

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 5th Edition

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 pre

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 5th Edition

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-co

[9fans] Replace Lucida Fonts

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[9fans] Update APE

Since the POSIX standard is updated to POSIX.1-2008 with the 2016 TC, the commands should be updated as well. Also, how to submit either a patch or a contribution?