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Why not just port Plan 9 to a Parallella board ? They do plan to have SATA which isn't on any other Zynq dev board AFAIK, this will require some FPGA work as i
by rjsw 12y ago
Why not just port Plan 9 to a Parallella board ?
They do plan to have SATA which isn't on any other Zynq dev board AFAIK, this will require some FPGA work as it isn't provided by the SoC.
- awalton 12y agoHowever there are implementations for Xilinx FPGAs, like this OpenCores one: http://opencores.org/project,sata_controller_core http://opencores.org/project,sata_controller_core I can imagine a couple of students with a lot of free time could get it ported over to the newer FPGA and start thinking about the kernel driver workup for it.
- eekee 12y agoThe point was for this one guy (aiju) to see if he could design and build a whole working computer. If I could afford one, I'd get one as much for the purpose of supporting heroic individual effort -- I witnessed some of his struggles -- as for any other reason.