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From: dhog@plan9.bell-labs.com
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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Bootstrapping on Alpha
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 12:07:40 -0400
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> I'd like to try Plan 9 on my Alpha (PWS 433au), but there does not seem
> to be any way to bootstrap it. I would also be happy to run it on my VAX
> (VAXstation 3100 m38 with plenty of memory and disk). For (hopefully)
> obvious reasons, there are no intel cpus in my home. How do I do this?

Please note that that the Alpha port currently only runs on the AlphaPC 164
(and perhaps a few close relatives).  At the moment, the only way of booting
it is via bootp/tftp (but I'm planning to address that limitation).  If you don't
have any 386-compatible cpus, you're going to have to get someone else
to build all the alpha binaries for you.

I think a PWS 433au is sufficiently like an AlphaPC 164 to work (it has a
21164 CPU and Pyxis (21174) core-logic, right?).  There might need to be
some tweaks for the core logic, I think the port has only been tested
on the 21172 core logic.