Re: [9fans] Installing Plan9 on a DEC Alpha Workstation

["LiteStar numnums" <litestar@gmail.com>]

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I'm a bit behind, but if anyone in the Tri-State region is looking for
machines, please email me off list. I've an odd collection of Suns, Alphas,
& Macs that I'd be willing to part with. Oh, and a 12u PII Xeon with 2 or 4
cpus.

On Feb 14, 2008 9:24 AM, Iruata Souza <iru.muzgo@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Benjamin Huntsman
> <BHuntsman@mail2.cu-portland.edu> wrote:
> > > AS600 has an EV5 cpu, not an EV56, so IIRC you might have to clean up
> some assembler code and add some assembler for drivers to work properly
> without BWX instructions
> >
> >  Last time I tried, you can get Plan 9 to build with the -b flag to the
> compiler. (at least I think it's -b... there's definitely a "no-bwx"
> switch.)  I was able to get the bootloader working on my Multia, but
> couldn't get it to download the config file via my Mac OS X-hosted tftp
> server.  It'd at least get to that point, though...
> >
> >  I'm getting inspired to give it another try now that I've got an
> XP1000...
> >
>
> the switch is -x.
> I have an AlphaServer 2100A running VMS too. It would be really nice
> to run Plan 9 on it.
>
> iru
>



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