Re: [9fans] Plan 9 installation disc question

[Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>]

I was trying this out via Boot Camp, and it stuck before the CD menu  
even showed up. At least you got it booting! :-)

On Oct 24, 2007, at 3:22 PM, David Leimbach wrote:

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> 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:
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> >
> >
> > 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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