* [9fans] nubus macs
@ 2005-10-17 2:49 Lyndon Nerenberg
2005-10-17 5:32 ` Jack Johnson
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From: Lyndon Nerenberg @ 2005-10-17 2:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
One of my neighbours on the dock has a very unused Powerbook 1400c
that I can probably swap for a case of beer. In the realm of ppc
ports, has there been any attempt to make P9 run on a nubus (or
whatever it's called) PPC mac? This thing would be a sweet little
mobile terminal if it would be made to work. A cursory scan of the
list archives doesn't make me hopeful, though.
--lyndon
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* Re: [9fans] nubus macs
2005-10-17 2:49 [9fans] nubus macs Lyndon Nerenberg
@ 2005-10-17 5:32 ` Jack Johnson
2005-10-17 7:59 ` Ben Huntsman
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From: Jack Johnson @ 2005-10-17 5:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
On 10/16/05, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> wrote:
> One of my neighbours on the dock has a very unused Powerbook 1400c
> that I can probably swap for a case of beer. In the realm of ppc
> ports, has there been any attempt to make P9 run on a nubus (or
> whatever it's called) PPC mac?
It looks like that PowerBook is support by Linux, MkLinux and possibly
NetBSD, so it might be a good candidate for a plan9ports box.
Not perfect, but at least you know your NIC will work. ;)
-Jack
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* Re: [9fans] nubus macs
2005-10-17 5:32 ` Jack Johnson
@ 2005-10-17 7:59 ` Ben Huntsman
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From: Ben Huntsman @ 2005-10-17 7:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Apple tends to do things strangely, and the PPC laptop you describe,
happens to be an Old World system, which means that if it even has
OpenFirmware at all, it's the old buggy version 2 or less. Just
because some Linux variant boots on the thing doesn't mean P9 will
run on it. For starters, you'd have to write a boot loader specific
to it pretty much from scratch.
Have a look at Vita Nuova's Inferno distribution, which might have
some examples of how to boot from OF on PPC hardware... and Inferno
and P9 are sufficiently similar that you shouldn't have to shoehorn
too much...
Good luck, and let me know if you get anywhere... I have a bunch of
similar Old World mac hardware sitting around too
-Ben
On Oct 16, 2005, at 10:32 PM, Jack Johnson wrote:
> On 10/16/05, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> wrote:
>
>> One of my neighbours on the dock has a very unused Powerbook 1400c
>> that I can probably swap for a case of beer. In the realm of ppc
>> ports, has there been any attempt to make P9 run on a nubus (or
>> whatever it's called) PPC mac?
>>
>
> It looks like that PowerBook is support by Linux, MkLinux and possibly
> NetBSD, so it might be a good candidate for a plan9ports box.
>
> Not perfect, but at least you know your NIC will work. ;)
>
> -Jack
>
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