[9fans] Re: Plan9 on Sun Sparc 5 or RS6000-43P/132 ??

[Zippy <zippy@snappy.com>]

Ok, my interest is piqued.  I'll play with it :)

Thanks for the info.

--Duane

On Tue, 15 May 2001 12:29:39 GMT, Alexander Povolotsky
<ap80@lucent.com> wrote:

>See the following previous posting:
>
>From: rob pike <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
>Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 3:10 PM
>To: comp.os.plan9
>Subject: [9fans] Sun
>
>On the Plan 9 update download page, available through
>        http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9
>I have placed a gzipped tar file.  It contains the Release 2 sources
>for the Sun kernels, plus some relevant supporting information.  The
>package is probably only useful if you're interested in using it as a
>starting point for a Release 3 port to the Suns.
>
>(After a lot of archaeology and some outside help, we finally
>established we have permission to release this information.  We
>haven't established that yet for the SGI Challenge.)
>
>Enjoy, and keep us posted.
>
>-rob
>
>"Zippy" <zippy@snappy.com> wrote in message
>news:42f0gt8drcde2ei71gensi8ibcgintfjru@4ax.com...
>> Got some spare UNIX machines lying around.  Was wondering where I
>> could find information on using them for Plan9 ??  Tried to install it
>> on my PC, but my IDE controller is not supported, and the old PC has
>> this annoying IRQ conflict that won't go away, and causes problems
>> installing...
>>
>> --Duane