Re: [9fans] MIPS64

[Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>]

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I stand corrected.

brucee


On 6 September 2014 17:20, Shane Morris <edgecomberts@gmail.com> wrote:

> Last millennia, don't you mean? ^.^
>
> Sorry, couldn't resist. If I had known about Inferno when I still had my
> PS2 Linux Kit working... =(
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Interesting. I did 4c last century (for the Inferno PS2 port). Must have
>> not made it into the distrib.
>>
>> brucee
>> On 06/09/2014 2:57 PM, "cherry" <lunaria21@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello 9Fans,
>>>
>>> I would like to share that mips64 support of Plan 9 is currently
>>> available. The compiler and the libraries are at
>>> https://bitbucket.org/cherry9/4c
>>> And a 64-bit kernel for Loongson machine is built, at
>>> https://bitbucket.org/cherry9/plan9-loongson64
>>> The kernel seems to work fine, and so do programs like acme and page.
>>>
>>> The userland support is in the compiler repo instead of along with the
>>> kernel, as I hope it will be useful for not only Loongson but mips64
>>> in general.
>>>
>>> The kernel is not 9k kernel though. It is instead a (minimal)
>>> modification from 32-bit Plan 9. The next step is probably to switch
>>> to 9k kernel. For the userland, ape is not ported yet, so a few
>>> programs don't build. Currently the kernel code is not so
>>> user-friendly: to build the kernel, it needs to bind _port64/ before
>>> /sys/src/9/port/, and in the 32-bit Loongson sources bind 2f/ to the
>>> front to use 2F drivers. A kernel image is uploaded to the download
>>> page of the repo.
>>>
>>> Hope this is useful.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> - cherry
>>>
>>>
>

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