From: Christopher Nielsen <cnielsen@pobox.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] power pc port
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 02:26:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030804092651.GP63873@cassie.foobarbaz.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7458b557.0308020816.304c1d0b@posting.google.com>
There's a lot of proprietary hardware inside the older SGIs.
And I think you'd be hard pressed to find any documentation.
IANAL, but I would think that implementing a kernel after
looking at 2ed code would violate the license. Personally,
I wouldn't risk it.
Just my $0.02
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 08:59:35AM +0000, plan9@itic.ca wrote:
> > AFAIK, SGI isn't publicly available. The last time I tried
> > wrestling with SGI about it, they "poltely declined" to
> > approve release of the source.
>
>
> Right (I forgot that) ! That came from R2 which had diferent
> license. Looking at the kernel code, it was VERY far from R4.
>
> The init code might be helpfull. For the kernel itself, that
> may be a best bet to find the hardware specifications (if any).
--
Christopher Nielsen
"They who can give up essential liberty for temporary
safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-04 9:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-29 15:03 David Presotto
2003-07-29 16:34 ` David Presotto
2003-07-30 8:25 ` plan9
2003-08-01 9:02 ` plan9
2003-08-01 13:39 ` Sape Mullender
2003-08-01 19:43 ` Richard Miller
2003-08-04 8:59 ` plan9
2003-08-04 9:25 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-08-04 14:18 ` ron minnich
2003-08-05 10:22 ` Richard Miller
2003-08-05 12:05 ` northern snowfall
2003-08-05 12:53 ` Dan Cross
2003-08-05 13:19 ` C H Forsyth
2003-08-05 14:13 ` northern snowfall
2003-08-05 14:16 ` northern snowfall
2003-08-06 2:55 ` boyd, rounin
2003-08-05 13:24 ` andrey mirtchovski
2003-08-05 13:56 ` Dan Cross
2003-08-05 14:41 ` Philippe Anel
2003-08-06 1:03 ` okamoto
2003-08-05 14:31 ` northern snowfall
2003-08-05 15:25 ` a
2003-08-06 18:23 ` [9fans] plan9 on Ati Mobility M/M1, HP Omnibook 6000 FODEMESI Gergely
2003-08-01 17:50 ` [9fans] power pc port David Presotto
2003-08-01 18:04 ` Christopher Nielsen
2003-08-04 8:59 ` plan9
2003-08-04 9:26 ` Christopher Nielsen [this message]
2003-08-06 9:02 ` plan9
2003-08-04 9:31 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-08-04 14:19 ` ron minnich
2003-08-04 14:44 ` David Presotto
2003-08-04 14:50 ` Jack Johnson
2003-08-04 14:42 ` Jack Johnson
2003-08-07 18:06 ` C H Forsyth
2003-08-02 7:44 ` Charles Forsyth
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