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Subject: Re: [9fans] running in AMDs simnow
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On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 07:10:20PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
> > So yes, with the help of Erik I managed to bake a bootable iso for
> > this ibm eserver 325 I have here, which seems to behave in a pretty
> > similar way to the one you describe here (look for the thread "plan 9
> > on an ibm eserver 325).
> >=20
> > I'm attaching the 9load I used for that iso, which incidentally is th=
e
> > one that actually works on my T61.  I don't have the sources for it a=
s
> > Erik had built it for me when I had trouble with the T61.  So you
> > should hope that Erik still has the sources somewhere around or
> > directly try with that one.
>=20
> this wasn't ment to be secretive.  i believe the reason this version of
> 9load works is that it doesn't call bios.  (smm is aus der h=F6lle.)

sorry if it sounded that way, I did not meant that.
It's just that as you once told me yourself, the fixes you make
sometimes never end up in the default distribution, either because you
forget or because as you point out below, it goes into contrib.

What is the rationale between stuff going into contrib and stuff going
into the distro anyway? If the 9load you made is the one allowing to
boot machines that don't boot with the one on the iso, shouldn't yours
go onto the iso so that newcomers benefit from it from the beginning?
What am I missing here?

> the source has been in /n/sources/contrib/quanstro/src/9loadaoe.
> i just updated it to cover a fix for macbooks with ahci.
>=20
> - erik

Mathieu.