From: Ben Huntsman <BHuntsman@mail2.cu-portland.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] bootalphapc
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 21:57:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040701T215747Z_FFB700000000@mail2.cu-portland.edu> (raw)
My thoughts also. Using the *BSD Alpha bootloader to boot a Plan9 kernel shouldn't be impossibly difficult. I also did scrounge up a very excellent piece of documentation on SRM, and even acquired the OSF Palcode, which may be of assistance.
As for Mr. Collyer's post, do you remember what didn't work and/or why for the AlphaServer port?
Thanks again!
>>> George Michaelson<ggm@apnic.net> 7/1/2004 9:36:05 PM >>>
NetBSD Alpha loyalists are.. well loyal. If there is a frob, they are likely
to know about it.
It might be hateful, but would booting or boot-strapping via a NetBSD kernel
initialization phase maybe be the way to go? You could acquire control of a
machine in a tolerably well initialized state that way.
I don't mean to imply they know any more than anyone here, more that they do
seem to be tenacious, and have squirrelled away a wide variety of the hosts,
the proms/srm revisions, tech notes etc.
http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/alpha/
-George
next reply other threads:[~2004-07-02 4:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-02 4:57 Ben Huntsman [this message]
2004-07-02 5:08 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-07-02 15:40 ` jmk
2004-07-06 16:13 ` andrey mirtchovski
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2004-07-06 16:32 Ben Huntsman
2004-07-06 19:54 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-07-02 5:19 Ben Huntsman
2004-07-02 14:59 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-07-02 4:15 Ben Huntsman
2004-07-02 4:29 ` Geoff Collyer
2004-07-02 4:36 ` George Michaelson
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