[9fans] Can we run Plan 9 on WD My Book Live [PowerPC] architecture?

[9fans] Can we run Plan 9 on WD My Book Live [PowerPC] architecture?

[ROuNIN]

Hello all,
Recently, came across this at [http://blog.marc-seeger.de/2011/03/20/
the-western-digital-mybook-live]:

# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor  : 0
cpu       : APM82181
clock      : 800.000008MHz
revision  : 28.129 (pvr 12c4 1c81)
bogomips : 1600.00
timebase    : 800000008
platform  : PowerPC 44x Platform
model      : amcc,apollo3g
Memory        : 256 MB

It has an 800MHz CPU with 256 MB RAM

So, question I have is there a possibility that we can we run Plan 9
or plan9port on WD My Book Live [PowerPC] architecture?

Many thanks,
ROuNIN

Re: [9fans] Can we run Plan 9 on WD My Book Live [PowerPC] architecture?

[John Floren]

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 7:40 AM, ROuNIN <rounin.urashima@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
> Recently, came across this at [http://blog.marc-seeger.de/2011/03/20/
> the-western-digital-mybook-live]:
>
> # cat /proc/cpuinfo
> processor  : 0
> cpu       : APM82181
> clock      : 800.000008MHz
> revision  : 28.129 (pvr 12c4 1c81)
> bogomips : 1600.00
> timebase    : 800000008
> platform  : PowerPC 44x Platform
> model      : amcc,apollo3g
> Memory        : 256 MB
>
> It has an 800MHz CPU with 256 MB RAM
>
> So, question I have is there a possibility that we can we run Plan 9
> or plan9port on WD My Book Live [PowerPC] architecture?
>
> Many thanks,
> ROuNIN
>
>

The Blue Gene kernel is for PPC 44x, so support is at least partly available.


John

Re: [9fans] Can we run Plan 9 on WD My Book Live [PowerPC] architecture?

[Anthony Sorace]

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you've got a very good shot at running p9p on it - p9p is
already known to run on some linux ppc platform. with
any luck, it should just work.

native plan9 will be some work. john points to the Blue
Gene kernel (which you can get somewhere, but as i
understand it isn't quite a "stock" plan9 kernel), and the
plan9 tree has support for some older ppc platforms.
those together should help to make it a comparatively
easy port, but it's still a port.

it'd be a fun project, and a nice port to have. not much
expandability, but a relatively cheap way to get a
multi-TB file server. my biggest questions to start would
be how the image is stored and what bootloader it's
currently using.

a


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