[9fans] inferno runs on n770 and n800/n810 (was: Re: How can I boot plan9 on my Compaq AlphaServer DS10L?)

[f***@gmail.com]

i like nokia's line, and would love to see a port of Plan 9 (or
Inferno) to the 770 or N800 (there's an even newer one, but i forget
the model off hand and don't own one of those).

Inferno works perfectly on the n770 and probably on the n800, n810 as
well. It's not packaged and doesn't have full-screen mode, but it's
quite simple to get it running, though i could not find any use for
it. The binary is in caerwyn's inferno emulator collection at
http://code.google.com/p/inferno-bin/
and you can probably easily build it yoursef from the current distribution.

[Robert Raschke]

Hi,

Post by f***@gmail.com

i like nokia's line, and would love to see a port of Plan 9 (or
Inferno) to the 770 or N800 (there's an even newer one, but i forget
the model off hand and don't own one of those).

Inferno works perfectly on the n770 and probably on the n800, n810 as
well. It's not packaged and doesn't have full-screen mode, but it's
quite simple to get it running, though i could not find any use for
it. The binary is in caerwyn's inferno emulator collection at
http://code.google.com/p/inferno-bin/
and you can probably easily build it yoursef from the current distribution.

I use my N810 as a portable (fun) development machine, I installed all
the guff like gcc etc. And with that in place it took me an afternoon
to download inferno and compile it up. This is on the N810 itself, not
some hosted dev environment. The emu commandline works very well. I've
not yet tried running wm, that's coming over the holidays. But just to
have mk on the machine is a boon. My brain is too small for gmake.

Having a native Plan 9 on it may be interesting, but probably a lot of
work to get it to not empty the battery in 30 minutes. One thing to be
said about the Maemo platform is that it is pretty good in terms of
power consumption.

Robby

[Richard Miller]

Post by f***@gmail.com
Inferno works perfectly on the n770 and probably on the n800, n810 as
well. It's not packaged and doesn't have full-screen mode

In /n/sources/contrib/miller/inferno/n800 there is a hacked win-x11a.c
which (a) starts emu in full-screen mode and (b) uses the three 'zoom'
buttons on the n800 as mouse buttons so you can use acme properly (if
you can see what you're doing on the tiny screen).

It's a hack not a proper solution, because without using the full glory
of the hildon/gtk+ api I don't know how to get back out of fullscreen
mode again. You can switch out of inferno by hitting the 'home' button
to run something else, but then if you attempt to switch back to inferno
you just get the term window emu was started from. The inferno graphics
window must be there somewhere, but ... ?