From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Nielsen To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] power pc port Message-ID: <20030804092651.GP63873@cassie.foobarbaz.net> References: <20030801180424.GF63873@cassie.foobarbaz.net> <7458b557.0308020816.304c1d0b@posting.google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7458b557.0308020816.304c1d0b@posting.google.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 02:26:51 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 101d1a20-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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