[9fans] plan9 on Sparc IPC ?

[Dave M Klint davek@csh.rit.edu]

>I tried plan9 terminal on my Sparc IPC, but it hung after
>having downloaded its kernel(9ss) from tftp server.
>The same kernel runs on SS2 without any stress.
>
>I commented out "case 0x52:" in 9/ss/main.c as told in 
>plan9 ML archive and made a new kernel.  But the new kernel
>also hung at the same place as before.
>
>Are there any patch (or boddle?) that I missed ?
>__
>YAMANASHI Takeshi
>
I currently have a plan9 fileserver and a terminal running
on Sparc IPC boxes.  As far as I can remember there 
was no problems tftp'ing the kernels  that were given
in the distribution.  You may have taken care of this
already, but plan9 for Sparc doesn't support the vga
card that's in most of the IPC's, so you have to 
physically remove the card and plug the monitor into the
black and white output.  Then it should work.

-davek
davek@csh.rit.edu