Re: [9fans] Re: Plan9 on Sun Sparc 5 or RS6000-43P/132 ??

Re: [9fans] Re: Plan9 on Sun Sparc 5 or RS6000-43P/132 ??

[forsyth]

if you're working with the sparc 5, which i believe is a microsparc model,
let me know and i can provide the microsparc side of a port of the old system to the Lx/Classic
(which was microsparc-based).  you'll need to answer The Questions.

the microsparc implementations differ in various ways from the Sparc used in the ss and ss10 ports
and thus the lx/classic port might provide a more appropriate base for the sparc 5.
no doubt in practice it is the usual hybrid.

Re: [9fans] Re: Plan9 on Sun Sparc 5 or RS6000-43P/132 ??

[Zippy]

On Tue, 15 May 2001 13:36:07 GMT, forsyth@vitanuova.com wrote:

>if you're working with the sparc 5, which i believe is a microsparc model,
>let me know and i can provide the microsparc side of a port of the old system to the Lx/Classic
>(which was microsparc-based).  you'll need to answer The Questions.
>
>the microsparc implementations differ in various ways from the Sparc used in the ss and ss10 ports
>and thus the lx/classic port might provide a more appropriate base for the sparc 5.
>no doubt in practice it is the usual hybrid.

"The Questions", meaning the export questions ??  I am in the US, and
will not export the source or binaries (or anything else, as I have no
place to put it but on my hard disk here in the center of the country)

Sparc5 is uniprocessor like the LX/Classic, so it might work.
Specifically, the hardware I have for this is:

(2) Sparc5's, one 70 MHZ and one 85 MHz (they're exactly the same
except for clock speed, with the TGX framebuffer.  Is that framebuffer
supported .. ?  Of would I use a PC for a terminal ??

I also have an RS/6000 43P/132 PowerPC machine.  It looks like it's
probably not anywhere near supported, though...

--Duane

[9fans] Plan9 on Sun Sparc 5 or RS6000-43P/132 ??

[Zippy]

Got some spare UNIX machines lying around.  Was wondering where I
could find information on using them for Plan9 ??  Tried to install it
on my PC, but my IDE controller is not supported, and the old PC has
this annoying IRQ conflict that won't go away, and causes problems
installing...

--Duane

[9fans] Re: Plan9 on Sun Sparc 5 or RS6000-43P/132 ??

[Alexander Povolotsky]

See the following previous posting:

From: rob pike <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 3:10 PM
To: comp.os.plan9
Subject: [9fans] Sun

On the Plan 9 update download page, available through
        http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9
I have placed a gzipped tar file.  It contains the Release 2 sources
for the Sun kernels, plus some relevant supporting information.  The
package is probably only useful if you're interested in using it as a
starting point for a Release 3 port to the Suns.

(After a lot of archaeology and some outside help, we finally
established we have permission to release this information.  We
haven't established that yet for the SGI Challenge.)

Enjoy, and keep us posted.

-rob

"Zippy" <zippy@snappy.com> wrote in message
news:42f0gt8drcde2ei71gensi8ibcgintfjru@4ax.com...
> Got some spare UNIX machines lying around.  Was wondering where I
> could find information on using them for Plan9 ??  Tried to install it
> on my PC, but my IDE controller is not supported, and the old PC has
> this annoying IRQ conflict that won't go away, and causes problems
> installing...
>
> --Duane

[9fans] Re: Plan9 on Sun Sparc 5 or RS6000-43P/132 ??

[Zippy]

Ok, my interest is piqued.  I'll play with it :)

Thanks for the info.

--Duane

On Tue, 15 May 2001 12:29:39 GMT, Alexander Povolotsky
<ap80@lucent.com> wrote:

>See the following previous posting:
>
>From: rob pike <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
>Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 3:10 PM
>To: comp.os.plan9
>Subject: [9fans] Sun
>
>On the Plan 9 update download page, available through
>        http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9
>I have placed a gzipped tar file.  It contains the Release 2 sources
>for the Sun kernels, plus some relevant supporting information.  The
>package is probably only useful if you're interested in using it as a
>starting point for a Release 3 port to the Suns.
>
>(After a lot of archaeology and some outside help, we finally
>established we have permission to release this information.  We
>haven't established that yet for the SGI Challenge.)
>
>Enjoy, and keep us posted.
>
>-rob
>
>"Zippy" <zippy@snappy.com> wrote in message
>news:42f0gt8drcde2ei71gensi8ibcgintfjru@4ax.com...
>> Got some spare UNIX machines lying around.  Was wondering where I
>> could find information on using them for Plan9 ??  Tried to install it
>> on my PC, but my IDE controller is not supported, and the old PC has
>> this annoying IRQ conflict that won't go away, and causes problems
>> installing...
>>
>> --Duane