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From: Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] MIPS64
Date: Sat,  6 Sep 2014 15:24:41 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJQxxwnaKeffJM7R=XY0mw-MQQuv+YHWOCnDMCPUaz1dGKtiaw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACzOosC=2YJQ10X2PPb8PORwFPAw4s3dPHYtkpjEF_wkE=oiYQ@mail.gmail.com>

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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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  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-06  5:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-06  4:55 cherry
2014-09-06  5:24 ` Bruce Ellis [this message]
2014-09-06  7:20   ` Shane Morris
2014-09-06 10:12     ` Bruce Ellis
2014-09-06 15:07   ` cherry
2014-09-06 17:49 sl
2014-09-06 18:11 ` Shane Morris
2014-09-06 23:55   ` Bruce Ellis
2014-09-07  3:54     ` Shane Morris
2014-09-07  4:02       ` Shane Morris

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