Re: [9fans] P9P on Lemote Yeeloong

[lucio@proxima.alt.za]

> There are versions of Plan 9 compilers that support both those formats
> -- perhaps it won't be as hard as you expect.
> BlueGene boots Plan 9 from ELF binaries for instance.
>
I'll have a good look, I wasn't expecting that.  Right now, I want to
clear up P9P on the Lemote, if at all possible.  Once I'm sure of
where that is going, I'll consider finding out how to generate ELFes
under Plan 9 for the MIPS platform.  I'll try not to be stubborn.

> There are 64-bit compilers available for Plan 9 as well (for specific
> architectures, namely x86_64 and ppc64).  So you are a bit out of
> luck here on MIPS (unless Brzr has a MIPS64 compiler I've forgotten
> about).

I think Steve Simon is right and there is a partial implementation of
the MIPS-64 compiler lurking.  But I don't think I'll be the one to
complete it, compiler construction is not one of my (scarce) strong
suits.

++L