[9fans] Plan9 on ADM K6

[9fans] Plan9 on ADM K6

[jim]

	However one problem is left.
	CPU identification message is "Pentium 488MHz".
	I don't know whether this is important or not.
	I looked 9/pc/clock.c.
	There is no line that includes non-intel CPU name.
	Is there clock.c that support non-intel chips?

not having the system detect the speed correctly can cause problems
in some device drivers where register accesses must be separated by delays.
does anyone have the detection code for the non-intel chips?

--jim

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[Nigel]

Or FreeBSD.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk [SMTP:forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk]
> Sent:	Tuesday, April 28, 1998 5:34 AM
> To:	9fans@cse.psu.edu
> Subject:	Re: [9fans] Plan9 on ADM K6
> 
> >>If you wanted to update clock.c to support non-intel chips,
> >>Linux's arch/i386/kernel/setup.c certainly contains all the
> >>relevant bits.
> 
> i find it's usually better to work from the handbooks.

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[forsyth]

>>If you wanted to update clock.c to support non-intel chips,
>>Linux's arch/i386/kernel/setup.c certainly contains all the
>>relevant bits.

i find it's usually better to work from the handbooks.

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[Scott]

"Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com> writes:
| > Is there clock.c that support non-intel chips?
| 
| If you wanted to update clock.c to support non-intel chips,
| Linux's arch/i386/kernel/setup.c certainly contains all the
| relevant bits.

I started in on that as part of the performance monitor
patches I posted (/dev/cpuid). 

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[Russ]

> Is there clock.c that support non-intel chips?

If you wanted to update clock.c to support non-intel chips,
Linux's arch/i386/kernel/setup.c certainly contains all the
relevant bits.

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[Kenji]

Thank you Jim and Bodet.
I have almost finished now.
My mistake was that I did not tried as user "none".

I was encouraged by Bodet.
Typing ^T^Tp as Jim says, I found 8.5 is running and I immediately
understood that 8.5 could not process vga color.
So I entered as user "none", added a data to vgadb for my new vga card,
and then I found everything seems fine.

However one problem is left.
CPU identification message is "Pentium 488MHz".
I don't know whether this is important or not.
I looked 9/pc/clock.c.
There is no line that includes non-intel CPU name.
Is there clock.c that support non-intel chips?

Kenji Arisawa
E-mail: arisawa@aichi-u.ac.jp

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[Laurent]

    > Hello 9fans!
    > 
    > I am now trying to install Plan9 on my new hardware to upgrade
    > my Plan9 system.
    > The hardware is,
    > 	Mother Board:
    > 	Gigabyte	GA-586SG
    > 	with Award Modular BIOS v4.52PG
    > 	CPU: AMD K6/233MHz
    > My concern was that Plan9 can run on K6, so I tested the hardware
    > using the harddisk that has been used as Plan9 terminal.
    > I removed scsi and ethernet configuration from plan9.ini to make
    > the situation simple.
    > The new hardware shows the following messages:
    > 	init: starting /bin/rc
    > 	controller not in /lib/vgadb
    > 	...
    > 	/bin/dossrv 20: Serving #s/dos
    > and then stopped to show any more messages.
    > We should see the prompt "term%" if succeed.
    > Probably it is hanged up.
    > I know how to configure /lib/vgadb.
    > My questions are:
    > 1. Does anyone succeed on K6?

I succeed on with K6/233Mhz and an ASUS TX97 mother board.

    > 2. What posibility should I take into consideration?

This machine run a stand alone Plan9 terminal at home without
problems.

    > 
    > Thanks,
    > 
    > Kenji Arisawa
    > E-mail: arisawa@aichi-u.ac.jp
    > 


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