From: Shane Morris <edgecomberts@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] MIPS64
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2014 17:20:15 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANZw+5eTp9qtjv=83FcJY1uxjXpUGWy_e=V8ogStn4zrwUXEJQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJQxxwnaKeffJM7R=XY0mw-MQQuv+YHWOCnDMCPUaz1dGKtiaw@mail.gmail.com>
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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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-06 7:20 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
2014-09-06 7:20 ` Shane Morris [this message]
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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