> sadly, the 10/100 ethernet is provided through a flakey usb hub

I think the 'cheap arm dev board' bandwagon will always suffer in this
regard, since the phones these SoCs were designed for don't even come
close to needing gbe

On 6/11/12, Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan <vdhar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> what about teg2 for which geoff announced support recently?
>
> btw, i have two raspberry pi at home now. i would like to run plan9
> and inferno (at least emu) on it as soon as possible.
>
> dharani
>
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 2:07 PM, John Floren <j...@jfloren.net> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Winston Weinert <winst...@lavabit.com>
>> wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2012-06-10 at 18:19 -0400, Comeau At9Fans wrote:
>>>> * Raspberry Pi
>>>> * Cotton Candy
>>>> * Mele A1000
>>>> * MK802
>>>
>>> Some other _pricier_ products to consider (and a larger variety of
>>> integrated components):
>>> * Beagleboard
>>> * Beaglebone
>>> * Pandaboard
>>> * Pico-ITX formfactor x86 motherboard
>>>
>>
>> Some of these should work already; /sys/src/9/omap/beagle seems to
>> indicate that you can already boot a beagleboard, for instance. As for
>> anything not based on the supported SoCs, well, until people stop
>> sitting on ass saying "boy that would be a nice terminal" and actually
>> start PORTING the damn thing, it'll never be more than Yet Another
>> 120-message 9fans Thread.
>>
>> I got the Efika Smarttop through quite a bit of the early boot over
>> the course of an afternoon, before finally getting pissed off at
>> having to re-write an SD card every time I iterated the kernel. It
>> shouldn't be *too* hard to get a minimally functional system, the code
>> in /sys/src/9 is quite good. Oh, there's another thing, for the love
>> of god don't buy a system that can't netboot, it's just not worth it.
>>
>> Or we could ignore all these and, in grand 9fans tradition, start
>> talking about a port to some hardware platform that's been dead for
>> over 5 years. SPARC64 et al are sorta played out by now, but I've got
>> a PDP-11 just sitting around...
>>
>>
>> john
>>
>
>

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