From: "David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on MacBook?
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:19:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e1162e60807170919h309b4137t305a1aea89531f8b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080717093212.GA3905@dinah>
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On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 2:32 AM, Anthony Martin <ality@pbrane.org> wrote:
> > I now have a more-or-less unused MacBook. I'm
> > considering spending some time trying to get Plan 9
> > working on it. Has anyone gotten beyond confirming
> > that it won't work out of the box?
>
> I have Plan 9 booting on an Intel Macbook. When I was
> first testing it out, there were problems with the
> SATA driver but Erik fixed those and it works fine
> now. The only change that you'll have to make is in
> the keyboard initialization for both the kernel and
> 9load.
>
Using boot camp I presume? So you have a BIOS. That or someone did EFI
support under the radar (which might still be cool even though it sucks).
>
> Add the following at the beginning of these functions:
> /sys/src/9/pc/kbd.c:/^kbdinit
> /sys/src/boot/pc/kbd.c:/^i8042init
>
> + c = inb(Status);
> + if(c & Rtimeout){
> + print("no keyboard present\n");
> + return;
> + }
>
> Oh, and you're going to need to supply a plan9.ini
> with sufficient parameters since you don't have
> keyboard input until you can run usb/kb.
>
> If I get some time on Saturday, I'll post a write-
> up on how to bootstrap the system using a spare
> partition on the Mac.
>
> Also, I started an ethernet driver for the Yukon 2
> chip that's in the Macbook. I had to put it aside
> for a while but I'm slowly getting back into it.
>
> Anthony
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-17 16:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-17 2:30 a
2008-07-17 2:35 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-07-17 2:40 ` a
2008-07-17 2:47 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-07-17 9:32 ` Anthony Martin
2008-07-17 11:31 ` Richard Miller
2008-07-17 16:19 ` David Leimbach [this message]
2008-11-23 0:10 ` Tom Lieber
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