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From: John Floren <john@jfloren.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Can we run Plan 9 on WD My Book Live [PowerPC] architecture?
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 07:56:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTim6e4An_rmg5GbzP4FY=y=9ki18HA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1d6dc9da-f4cc-41a3-925d-95c4f60e44bb@h36g2000pro.googlegroups.com>

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 7:40 AM, ROuNIN <rounin.urashima@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
> Recently, came across this at [http://blog.marc-seeger.de/2011/03/20/
> the-western-digital-mybook-live]:
>
> # cat /proc/cpuinfo
> processor  : 0
> cpu       : APM82181
> clock      : 800.000008MHz
> revision  : 28.129 (pvr 12c4 1c81)
> bogomips : 1600.00
> timebase    : 800000008
> platform  : PowerPC 44x Platform
> model      : amcc,apollo3g
> Memory        : 256 MB
>
> It has an 800MHz CPU with 256 MB RAM
>
> So, question I have is there a possibility that we can we run Plan 9
> or plan9port on WD My Book Live [PowerPC] architecture?
>
> Many thanks,
> ROuNIN
>
>

The Blue Gene kernel is for PPC 44x, so support is at least partly available.


John



  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-19 14:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-19 14:40 ROuNIN
2011-05-19 14:56 ` John Floren [this message]
2011-05-19 16:33 ` Anthony Sorace

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