[rjsw]

Why not just port Plan 9 to a Parallella board ?

They do plan to have SATA which isn't on any other Zynq dev board AFAIK, this will require some FPGA work as it isn't provided by the SoC.

[eekee]

The point was for this one guy (aiju) to see if he could design and build a whole working computer. If I could afford one, I'd get one as much for the purpose of supporting heroic individual effort -- I witnessed some of his struggles -- as for any other reason.

[awalton]

However there are implementations for Xilinx FPGAs, like this OpenCores one: http://opencores.org/project,sata_controller_core

I can imagine a couple of students with a lot of free time could get it ported over to the newer FPGA and start thinking about the kernel driver workup for it.