Plan 9 in Rust

R9 is a reimplementation of the plan9 kernel in Rust. It is not only inspired by but in many ways derived from the original Plan 9 source code.

We use cargo and the xtask pattern to build the kernel.

To build r9, we assume you have cloned the git repository somewhere convenient. Then simply change into the top-level directory and, cargo xtask build.

There are other useful xtask subcommands; run cargo xtask help to see what is available.

Right now, r9 is not self-hosting.

cargo xtask dist, which cargo xtask qemu and cargo xtask qemukvm depend on, requires llvm-objcopy. This is expected to live in the rust toolchain path. If you get No such file or directory (os error 2) messages, then install llvm separate from the rust toolchain and set:

OBJCOPY=$(which llvm-objcopy) cargo xtask qemukvm

if No such file or directory (os error 2) messages persist, check to ensure qemu or qemu-kvm is installed and the qemu-system-x86_64 binary is in your path.