Recent Plan 9 Work at Bell Labs

In my group of Plan 9 developers and users at Bell Labs in Murray Hill during the last two years (20082010) or so, much of our work has been based on ports of Plan 9 to machines other than the IBM PC. This talk will describe the ports, what we use them (or plan to use them) for, and what we learned. As usual, the bulk of Plan 9 code is sufficiently portable that only the kernel needs to be moved to a new system, and even that only involves populating a subdirectory of /sys/src/9 and possibly creating a bootstrap program in /sys/src/boot. A port to a system for which we have no compiler and no similar kernel would require substantially more work.