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 Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Benjamin Huntsmanthe switch is -x.
<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
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> 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...
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> I'm getting inspired to give it another try now that I've got an XP1000...
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I have an AlphaServer 2100A running VMS too. It would be really nice
to run Plan 9 on it.
iru