From: David Gordon Hogan <dhog@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] alpha anyone?
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 14:25:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001128192607.7B7C6199EE@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)
> has anyone gotten plan9 to boot on alpha?
I have!
> does anyone one the correct format for booted_dev in SRM so that it
> could be recognized by getether()?
>
> does anyone know *what* booted_dev is responsible for?
booted_dev is set by the SRM console. At least on my AlphaPC it is.
Alas, this was the only way I could find of getting the ethernet address
(which is required for bootp to work). Perhaps there's some "ioctl"
for doing this "correctly", but it's not documented anywhere that I
could find.
It sounds like the SRM console on your (older) Alpha isn't doing
this. Perhaps they only added the feature in a later version of
SRM. You could try going to www.compaq.com and getting the
latest version of the firmware. Or you could hard-code the ether
address as a stop-gap measure.
I'm still searching for a better solution; perhaps something will come up.
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2000-11-28 19:25 David Gordon Hogan [this message]
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