On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:16 AM, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net>wrote:
> > 2009/8/26 erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net>: > > > it contains all the changes from the last 10 days. > > > should fix all reported problems, except béla's. > > > > Could you post the link? I am new to this list and plan9, and i can > > not find a 9atom.iso, but a plan9.iso.bz2 [1] > > It would also be helpful for me reading some introductory material, i > > guess i can find it, but if you know some reference i would appreciate > > it. > > the link is > ftp://ftp.quanstro.net/other/9atom.iso.bz2 > cf819b70c90cedc39e305fb57d38f5df37302f84 Aug 26 09:13 > 9atom.iso.bz2 > > just a point of clarification. the purpose of 9atom.iso > is to help people get going who are having trouble with > various sata or pata chipsets. i recommend using > the standard cd if it works for you. applying the contrib > packages to an official cd makes more sense as i hope > that this one-off cd can go away in the future. > > it has different kernels and 9loads than the distribution. > it also applies the ape strtod fix to awk, and doesn't use > floating point in venti or fossil to avoid rounding errors. > you can think of 9atom.iso as plan9.iso.bz2 + > contrib quanstro/9load-e820 (binaries only) > contrib quanstro/sd (binaries only) > /n/sources/patch/apestrtod (awk binary only) > /n/sources/patch/fossil-sleep-stress > (venti moded, too) > > for my own convienence, there are some kernel differences > not covered above. they should be inconsequential. > but the source to that kernel is here > ftp://ftp.quanstro.net/other/kernel.mkfs.bz2 > > - erik > > I think there's work going on to use plan 9 to load plan 9 (maybe?) to replace 9load. However, is there any chance of getting your 9load in the mainline if/once people determine it to support more hardware?
