From: "Bryan W. Headley" <bheadley@interaccess.com>
To: rob pike <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
Cc: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Re: Cross-platform
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 12:49:27 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A50D137.97FA3030@interaccess.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200101011841.f01IfIf01104@cactus.bheadley.org>
rob pike wrote:
> first, this is the sort of question for comp.os.plan9.
> that aside, gcc doesn't generate plan 9 binaries (yet) and
> the 386 c compiler doesn't run on linux (although it
> wouldn't be very hard to make it do so).
> on the other hand, to port drivers there's no reason
> to do either: copy the source to the appropriate place
> and get to work with the native compiler.
> publish the results and wait for gratitude to rain upon you.
Okay, but I only have the boot floppy to work from to do the final compile.
Probably not enough scratch space for rebuilding the kernel. This ought to be
fun :-)
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: Cross-platform
> Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 13:05:31 -0600
> From: "Bryan W. Headley" <bheadley@interaccess.com>
> To: rob pike <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.plan9
>
> Rob,
>
> Got a PC with different SCSI and ethernet than what's supported out of
> the box (Initio and pcnet32). It's an old AMD Linux box. Anyway, I have
> the plan9 CD, and could retrofit the Linux drivers to work with p9.
> Question is, is there a cross-platform building strategy? Do I have any
> business expecting gcc to make p9 binaries, or build the '386 C compiler
> to run on Linux?
>
> Just a newbie (it might be written down somewhere, but I haven't found
> it after an hour's search :-)
>
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2001-01-01 18:49 ` Bryan W. Headley [this message]
2001-01-01 19:07 Russ Cox
2001-01-01 21:53 ` William K. Josephson
2001-01-01 21:59 ` William K. Josephson
2001-01-02 17:51 ` Randolph Fritz
2001-01-02 21:52 ` William K. Josephson
2001-01-01 19:57 presotto
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