> 2) I had a hard time to figure where were the sources of my > current kernel. I first thought it was a patched pc kernel, > and finally used 'find | grep termf' to learn it was a > nix/k10 kernel. What does k10 means? May I have some hope > to get a working 9atom Plan9 kernel for this board or should > I stay with nix ?
nix is integrated as the amd64 kernel of 9atom. k10 is one of the generic names amd gave a line of their 64-bit cpus. if you decide to try 9front, their 64-bit kernel is in /sys/src/9/pc64. > 4) Is there any documentation of the build process > somewhere ? I'd like to know how to build binaries for a > custom architecture, and such other things. the bell-labs doc: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/compiling_kernels 9atom should not be much different, except for location of the 64-bit kernel you already found. in a nutshell, building for other architectures is as simple as cd /sys/src objtype=$arch mk install where $arch is one of the top-level directories in /. not all are up to date or supported though. 386, amd64, and arm are the only ones i know of that are updated, but there are compilers for mips, powerpc, and sparc. > 5) How should I stay up to date with the 9atom development? > Is there any sources repository that I can mount or should I > use the iso ? 9fs atom and the source will be in /n/atom. the replica pull script in /usr/glenda/bin/rc works the same as the bell-labs script except it uses /dist/replica/atom to update the system.
