From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3e1162e60710241222md620d3dyb2b5f849a19c60c2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:22:44 -0700 From: "David Leimbach" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 installation disc question In-Reply-To: <513EA329-79A6-425B-A764-0798FDD6AF03@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_4394_26117693.1193253764659" References: <3e1162e60710231532v5e995af1g992b79620b56a7b2@mail.gmail.com> <20071024033229.2F6265B3E@mail.bitblocks.com> <3e1162e60710240930y27c36100m39062bd3b4743b59@mail.gmail.com> <513EA329-79A6-425B-A764-0798FDD6AF03@mac.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: d8671dfe-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 ------=_Part_4394_26117693.1193253764659 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 10/24/07, Pietro Gagliardi wrote: > > OK, that's fine. So I still don't know what is wrong, but I'll try > drawterm when I get Plan 9 up on the network (see my Broadcom emails; > I'm buying a card soon) I gave up on graphics for VMWare Fusion Plan 9, going to resort to drawterm I think. However my venti is hanging and the CPU on my MBP is getting awfully fast on the first boot after install and I login with glenda. On Oct 24, 2007, at 12:30 PM, David Leimbach wrote: > > > > > > > On 10/23/07, Bakul Shah wrote: > Mac OS > > X is still 32bit last I checked. You're likely having an EFI related > > > issue. > > > > MacOS X 10.4.9+ is already 64 bit capable, at least on the > > MacBook Pro > > > > $ sysctl machdep.cpu.brand_string > > machdep.cpu.brand_string: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7400 @ > > 2.16GHz > > > > $ sysctl hw.optional.x86_64 > > hw.optional.x86_64: 1 > > > > $ cat > ilp.c > #include > > int main(int c, char**v) { > > printf("i:%d l:%d ll:%d p:%d\n", > > sizeof(int), sizeof(long), sizeof(long long), sizeof > > (void*)); > > } > > EOF > > > > $ cc -m32 ilp.c -o ilp4 > > $ cc -m64 ilp.c -o ilp8 > > > > $ file ilp4 ilp8 > > ilp4: Mach-O executable i386 > > ilp8: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64 > > > > $ ilp4 > > i:4 l:4 L:8 p:4 > > $ ilp8 > > i:4 l:8 L:8 p:8 > > > > it's increasingly offtopic but yes :-) > > > > The whole system is not 64bit end to end. Objective C and Cocoa > > aren't yet 64bit, and I've yet to fail to get alignment errors with > > certain C memory allocation functions on my MBP with Tiger. > > > > I hope it's all fixed Friday, not that I see me using 64bit apps > > too much, I don't think I have enough RAM, even if the extra > > registers give me a bit of a performance boost :-) > > > > Dave > > ------=_Part_4394_26117693.1193253764659 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline

On 10/24/07, Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com> wrote:
OK, that's fine. So I still don't know what is wrong, but I'll try
drawterm when I get Plan 9 up on the network (see my Broadcom emails;
I'm buying a card soon)


I gave up on graphics for VMWare Fusion Plan 9, going to resort to drawterm I think.  However my venti is hanging and the CPU on my MBP is getting awfully fast on the first boot after install and I login with glenda.
 

On Oct 24, 2007, at 12:30 PM, David Leimbach wrote:

>
>
> On 10/23/07, Bakul Shah < bakul+plan9@bitblocks.com> wrote: > Mac OS
> X is still 32bit last I checked.  You're likely having an EFI related
> > issue.
>
> MacOS X 10.4.9+ is already 64 bit capable, at least on the
> MacBook Pro
>
> $ sysctl machdep.cpu.brand_string
> machdep.cpu.brand_string: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU         T7400  @
> 2.16GHz
>
> $ sysctl hw.optional.x86_64
> hw.optional.x86_64: 1
>
> $ cat > ilp.c <EOF
> #include <stdio.h>
> int main(int c, char**v) {
>     printf("i:%d l:%d ll:%d p:%d\n",
>            sizeof(int), sizeof(long), sizeof(long long), sizeof
> (void*));
> }
> EOF
>
> $ cc -m32 ilp.c -o ilp4
> $ cc -m64 ilp.c -o ilp8
>
> $ file ilp4 ilp8
> ilp4: Mach-O executable i386
> ilp8: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
>
> $ ilp4
> i:4 l:4 L:8 p:4
> $ ilp8
> i:4 l:8 L:8 p:8
>
> it's increasingly offtopic but yes :-)
>
> The whole system is not 64bit end to end.  Objective C and Cocoa
> aren't yet 64bit, and I've yet to fail to get alignment errors with
> certain C memory allocation functions on my MBP with Tiger.
>
> I hope it's all fixed Friday, not that I see me using 64bit apps
> too much, I don't think I have enough RAM, even if the extra
> registers give me a bit of a performance boost  :-)
>
> Dave


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