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>> For the rest of the week, I focused on adding the finishing touches to |
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>> Plan 9 From Gentoo. It's now in a fairly usable state, the only |
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>> remaining thing to be done is to get Portage up and running on the |
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>> liveCD, as that was a feature mentioned by someone during my original |
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>> proposal and something that I assume the community would be interested |
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>> in having. I now have an introductory message on startup that |
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>> introduces new users to some of the userspace paradigms introduced by |
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>> Plan 9 (i.e. actually "drawing" a window on the screen) and, further, |
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>> the message points them to a number of resources where they can learn |
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>> more about the components shipped by Plan 9 From Gentoo. |
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> Nice work, Robert. |
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Thanks! |
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>> Once Glendix has been forward ported to a more recent kernel, I will |
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>> begin porting more syscalls from Plan 9 to the Linux kernel with the |
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>> goal of getting the native Plan 9 version of the sam editor running on |
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>> top of the Linux kernel and shipping with Plan 9 From Gentoo. I am |
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>> still waiting for Anant to get back to me with some more information |
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>> on porting the syscalls and how to move forward. |
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> The idea here is to get all the native p9 apps running under a Linux kernel? |
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That's the eventual goal, but getting everything working will probably |
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take more work and time than the scope of my GSoC project. At any |
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rate, I intend to port as many Plan 9 syscalls as I can. |
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> What's your plan for getting patches upstreamed? We do have a few kernel |
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> devs, so I recommend getting in touch with some of them to work on |
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> integrating things into Linus's tree. |
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I'd be happy to talk to any kernel devs about what it would take to |
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get things merged upstream. Right now, I'm not sure if the project is |
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mature enough that it makes sense to merge things at right this |
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second, but it certainly would be a good idea in the future. Do you |
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have any developers in mind that I should get in contact with? At the |
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very least, I can make sure that I'm taking the right approach and, at |
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best, start work on getting things merged into mainline. |
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>> If he has still not gotten back to me by the time I am ready to begin |
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>> work, I will once again poke Robin about setting up a project page for |
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>> Plan 9 From Gentoo |
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> Seems like something that might make sense in |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/ — do you agree? |
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Yup, looks like a perfect fit for Plan 9 From Gentoo. |
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Cheers, |
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rps |