Re: [9fans] Source Code.
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Isaac Cortés wrote: > Thanks again, I'm not very smart but a persistent person, so maybe I'll last > thousand years trying until I'll master C and the source code but I will. You may find Nemo's books about Plan 9 useful as well. http://lsub.org/who/nemo/papers.html Specifically: Notes on the Plan 9 3rd edition Kernel source Introduction to Operating Systems Abstractions Using Plan 9 from Bell Labs Have fun! Jon
Re: [9fans] Getting qlock errors when trying to install
Excerpts from Sebastian Arvidsson Liem's message of Fri Dec 05 12:40:49 -0800 2008: > Hi, > > I've got my hands on a Intel Atom D945GCLF [1] board and I'm trying > to install Plan 9 on it. It's my first time so please be gentle. ;D > > I'm using the Dec 5 2008 iso and it hangs on the following: > > [...] > 1014M memory: 256M kernel data, 758M user, 1383M swap > kfs...version...time... > qlock: 0xf018bb64: ilockdepth 1 > qlock: 0xf01a1591: ilockdepth 1 > qlock: 0xf01a1591: ilockdepth 1 I recently put together a similar system but using the 945GCLF2 motherboard [1]. I also got similar qlock errors. I noticed that the kernel detected the ethernet card twice and so I decided to try disabling the ethernet interface in the BIOS. The system booted fine after that. I did have to put the SATA controller in legacy mode for it to be recognized as well. I think once I build a newer kernel I'll be able to use it in native mode. I'm using the last ISO I had lying around which is from 24 Sept 2008. I've since popped a 3c905 card in the machine and it's on the net. Hopefully tonight I'll have some time to update the installation. Once I've got that I can try renabling the onboard ethernet interface and see if it fares better with a newer kernel. If not I'll post the kernel I'm using somewhere so that Erik or whomever else can take a peek. Barring that I suppose I can just buy a supported GigE NIC. I might also try putting a Linux partition on here so I can try the lguest port, but I'd really rather run on bare hardware. This box is shaping up to be my home cpu/file server. It's definitely not a monster, but I think it will be more than adequate for my needs. Cheers, Jon [1]: For less than $225 shipped I got the following complete system: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121359 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820134192 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811154084 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148262
[9fans] Supercomputing 2008
Is anyone else going to be in Austin next week for Supercomputing? I'd be interested in an informal 9fans gathering. Any takers? Jon
[9fans] Export local plumber to remote unix host?
Hello, I read my email on a remote Unix machine which I access from a few terminals via ssh. The terminals are also Unix hosts (usually OS X). This works great for reading text. However, I frequently receive attachements. What I'd like to be able to do is export at least my plumber over the ssh connection to the remote host so I can display the attachments locally. This seems to be the opposite of what import(1) does. I guess what I want is cpu(1) for plan9port... or at least a limited version of it. This seems like it should be doable, but I think I'm looking at it the wrong way. Any suggestions? (Unfortunately the Unix boxes and Word documents aren't going away any time soon for me...) Thanks, Jon
[9fans] Eeepc
Hello, I recently bought an Eeepc and although I have Plan 9 running inside Parallels on my Mac I thought it would be interesting to see if I could get it installed on the Eeepc. I booted from an ISO image I downloaded on March 19th. Unfortunately I didn't get too far. Here's the console output: PBS1...Plan 9 from Bell Labs ELCR: 0CA8 apm ax=f000 cx=f000 dx=40 di=100 ebx=ef50 esi= initial probe, to find plan9.ini...dev A0 port 170 config 044A capabilities 0300 mwdma 0007 udma 101F pcirouting: South bridge 8086, 2641 not found And then we're back to the boot prompt. Is there any hope? I don't have much experience in the Plan 9 code base, but I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty. I've looked around in the code a bit but nothing stood out to me. Any suggestions about what I might try next would be most appreciated. Thanks! Jon
