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Date: Thu,  2 Aug 2007 09:01:40 -0400
From: William Josephson <jkw@eecs.harvard.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Mips kernel
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On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 09:49:50AM -0300, Iruata Souza wrote:
> On 8/2/07, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
> > > Who knows what happened with plan9 mips kernel?
> >
> > My reading this infers that the 3rd edition contained the MIPS kernel,
> > but it doesnt - I checked my CD from 2000.
> >
> > Somone was working on a new 64bit port I believe but I guess that stalled
> > (it has gone very quiet).
> 
> i can't load the wiki here but i guess it was tim weiss.

There ought to be a FAQ :-) The MIPS kernel can't be redistributed
because of restrictions imposed by SGI.  It was for the Challenge
anyway.  A new port to some of the embedded MIPS targets might be
interesting, I suppose, but otherwise all the world's an x86.