From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 References: <1d6dc9da-f4cc-41a3-925d-95c4f60e44bb@h36g2000pro.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1d6dc9da-f4cc-41a3-925d-95c4f60e44bb@h36g2000pro.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Apple-Mail-5--1049386484" Message-Id: <2E4E499C-3558-4DA3-BEB5-84FFC6BB1831@9srv.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Anthony Sorace Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 12:33:31 -0400 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] Can we run Plan 9 on WD My Book Live [PowerPC] architecture? Topicbox-Message-UUID: e71919de-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --Apple-Mail-5--1049386484 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 --Apple-Mail-5--1049386484 content-type: application/pgp-signature; x-mac-type=70674453; name=PGP.sig content-description: This is a digitally signed message part content-disposition: inline; filename=PGP.sig content-transfer-encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.16 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAk3VRmMACgkQyrb52b5lrs6kjACcCDaNb8cp5U5IzO4Bht/zsYqs 77MAnR2niZuCy5JDG7VBi6WoiMZyhcqb =i10M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail-5--1049386484--