Tootfinder

Symbols are great for debugging.
Already happy to have made the Plan 9 a.out to ELF conversion tool! \o/

Tailscale support for Plan 9.
https://tailscale.com/blog/tailscale-enterprise-plan-9-support

I started a conversion tool today for Plan 9 a.out to ELF.
https://github.com/platform-system-interface/p9aout2elf
The corresponding ELF I was given with an a.out has some differences in memory sizs for some reason.
I will see about trabslating the symbol table…

GitHub - platform-system-interface/p9aout2elf: Parse and convert Plan 9 a.out binaries
Parse and convert Plan 9 a.out binaries. Contribute to platform-system-interface/p9aout2elf development by creating an account on GitHub.

I posted a long email to 9fans, the Plan 9 mailing list.
Not sure if they will love or hate me. I guess both, so I might be doing it right lol...
This one may as well go out to other communities.
I may transform it into a blog post for reference.

Glenda has joined the family. (Tortoise for scale.)
Thaddeus Woskowiak has made a lovely 3D model of Glenda the Plan 9 bunny. Spent yesterday prepping and painting a print.

The conversion tool I started for Plan 9 a.out to ELF is at a good point now.
If you want to see me struggle for almost 2 hours trying to go the first steps, check out the recording of Wednesday's development live stream:
https://youtu.be/QwZmEpCNxcI

Here are some historical drawings by @… we coincidentally uncovered today. The original drawing that inspired the version that became Glenda (and was also philw's vismon icon, not that he approved), the drawing that became the Glenda image for Plan 9, and the hamster drawing for WFMU that mutated into the Go Gopher.

Google's AI claims that I cannot directly use a tool to convert Plan 9 a.out to ELF.
I am writing that tool right now.

✨ parsing the first symbols from a Plan 9 a.out, looking good! 🥳

All I want is sixty-nine hours on my sweet Plan 9.
I will see that I get a 9front based build setup.
No idea yet how it works. It is supposed to be instrumented to build a certain kernel when I make code changes.