Re: sony playstation ps2 port

I'm quite certain the ozInferno port to the ps2 was/is *native*, if
you want to get it you should talk to brucee.

I don't know if the port works with 'modern' ps2s, but if the homebrew
scene is strong enough it should be possible to make it work...

Peace

uriel

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Anthony Sorace <anothy@...> wrote:
> there was a ps2 emu port; i don't believe there was a native port.
> IIRC, the port required the developer kit, which pushes the price up
> again (are they still available?). i have no idea if the port's been
> maintained.

Re: sony playstation ps2 port

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan" <vdharani@...>
To: <inferno-list@...>
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 2:34 AM
Subject: [inferno-list] sony playstation ps2 port

> hi,
>
> while we discuss wrt54g port, i am wondering about ps2 port.
>
> didnt brucee port inferno on ps2 long back? is it still
maintained/available?

Brucee did a native port. The goal was to make a really cool framebuffer and
create some useful abstractions for all the nasty graphics hardware.

It was a hard slog. He first had to make changes to the MIPS code generator
(I can't remember the details, maybe 64-bit stuff). l.s was then made
functional by binary-chopping the instruction stream using the video enable
register for feedback. He did get the ethernet controller working but I
can't remember much else. AFAIK, he is the only one that has the port. It
would take a huge amount of work to make further progress without his help.
Those compiler bugs can really age you.

In addition, the port requires the Sony PS development kit (no longer
available in the US) which comes with a keyboard/mouse, harddisk, ethernet
controller and boot/secret software needed to load/run code. The boot DVD
cannot be easily copied and is also region protected. The kit also came with
a version of Linux but the whole system was disappointing. It's pretty

Re: sony playstation ps2 port

hi,

thanks for the details.

yeah, makes sense to avoid it.

regards
dharani

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Graham Gallagher <gg@...> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan" <vdharani@...>
> To: <inferno-list@...>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 2:34 AM
> Subject: [inferno-list] sony playstation ps2 port
>
>
>> hi,
>>
>> while we discuss wrt54g port, i am wondering about ps2 port.
>>
>> didnt brucee port inferno on ps2 long back? is it still
> maintained/available?
>
> Brucee did a native port. The goal was to make a really cool framebuffer and
> create some useful abstractions for all the nasty graphics hardware.
>
> It was a hard slog. He first had to make changes to the MIPS code generator
> (I can't remember the details, maybe 64-bit stuff). l.s was then made

Re: sony playstation ps2 port

AFAIK there is direct access to the graphics hardware, but I think
your other comments are fairly accurate.

Peace

uriel

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Graham Gallagher <gg@...> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan" <vdharani@...>
> To: <inferno-list@...>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 2:34 AM
> Subject: [inferno-list] sony playstation ps2 port
>
>
>> hi,
>>
>> while we discuss wrt54g port, i am wondering about ps2 port.
>>
>> didnt brucee port inferno on ps2 long back? is it still
> maintained/available?
>
> Brucee did a native port. The goal was to make a really cool framebuffer and
> create some useful abstractions for all the nasty graphics hardware.
>
> It was a hard slog. He first had to make changes to the MIPS code generator
> (I can't remember the details, maybe 64-bit stuff). l.s was then made
> functional by binary-chopping the instruction stream using the video enable
> register for feedback. He did get the ethernet controller working but I

acme crashing

I didn't know where to look for an inferno mailing list archive, so 
sorry if this is known

Sometimes when I get backspace I get

acme : text.type backspace: file does not exist

in the log and Acme dies on me
I get a similar thing happen when pressing TAB

That's on Windows XP

On Debian 5 I get
% emu
; wm/wm
Locking assertion failure.  Backtrace:
#0 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 [0xb7c66767]
#1 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0(xcb_xlib_lock+0x2e) [0xb7c6681e]
#2 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 [0xb7e15de9]
#3 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 [0xb7e165a2]
#4 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 [0xb7e16900]
#5 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6(_XReadEvents+0x77) [0xb7e170c7]
#6 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6(XNextEvent+0x88) [0xb7dfd0e8]
#7 /usr/local/inferno/Linux/386/bin/emu [0x804c644]
#8 /usr/local/inferno/Linux/386/bin/emu [0x804afe9]
#9 /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(clone+0x5e) [0xb7d486de]
Locking assertion failure.  Backtrace:
#0 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 [0xb7c66767]
#1 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0(xcb_xlib_unlock+0x31) [0xb7c668b1]
#2 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 [0xb7e15cf1]

Re: acme crashing

On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 05:54:43PM +0100, maht wrote:
> I didn't know where to look for an inferno mailing list archive, so sorry 
> if this is known

You can search in the Google Code issues list:

  http://code.google.com/p/inferno-os/issues/list

... and the "resources" page at vitanuova has a link to gmane where
you can search the mailing list:

  http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.os.inferno.general

> Sometimes when I get backspace I get
>
> acme : text.type backspace: file does not exist

I don't know what that is, but ...

...
> On Debian 5 I get
> % emu
> ; wm/wm
> Locking assertion failure.  Backtrace:
> #0 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 [0xb7c66767]

That looks like it might be related to this case:

  http://code.google.com/p/inferno-os/issues/detail?id=165&can=1&q=assertion

Native Inferno for Soekris Net4501

mounting host fs

Hello,

In hosted Inferno, how does one mount the host os's filesystem?  I'm
looking for a /mnt/term like thing.

Cheers,

Sam

Re: mounting host fs

see fs(3) for the peculiar spec values for #U that
give access to more of the underlying file system.

Re: mounting host fs

On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 10:59:39AM -0400, Sam Hopkins wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> In hosted Inferno, how does one mount the host os's filesystem?  I'm
> looking for a /mnt/term like thing.

cd '#U*'

http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/man/3/fs.html

mjl