[9fans] Plan 9 for ppc

[9fans] Plan 9 for ppc

[ron minnich]

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What PPC platforms can run Plan 9? I suppose 'not MAC' :-)

ron

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 for ppc

[David Presotto]

We're running it on a bunch of boards here.  The one sitting
in front of me is an xpc850.  We're also running on 8260's of
various flavors.  Unfortunately, none of them are standard PC's.
However, if the PowerPC in question has a well described board,
it shouldn't be much of a problem.

Others may have done more.

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 for ppc

[ron minnich]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, David Presotto wrote:

> We're running it on a bunch of boards here.  The one sitting
> in front of me is an xpc850.  We're also running on 8260's of
> various flavors.  Unfortunately, none of them are standard PC's.
> However, if the PowerPC in question has a well described board,
> it shouldn't be much of a problem.

xpc850 -- I see that is a motorola part, but do you have a URL for the
system. Also, 8260 is an old Power Mac, right?

ron

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 for ppc

[David Presotto]

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No URL.  We just have boards that we or other parts of Lucent
built all using 603e cores and that's what we support.  The 8260
is a kitchen sink chip with various serial interfaces that can
be microprogrammed into being different flavors of ether or serial
controllers, an MMU, a 603e core, caches, etc.

I really don't know what's in any of the MACs.  I just went to the
apple web pages and haven't been enlightened.

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From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 for ppc
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 08:26:35 -0600 (MDT)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0304160825570.6789-100000@maxroach.lanl.gov>

On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, David Presotto wrote:

> We're running it on a bunch of boards here.  The one sitting
> in front of me is an xpc850.  We're also running on 8260's of
> various flavors.  Unfortunately, none of them are standard PC's.
> However, if the PowerPC in question has a well described board,
> it shouldn't be much of a problem.

xpc850 -- I see that is a motorola part, but do you have a URL for the
system. Also, 8260 is an old Power Mac, right?

ron

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 for ppc

[Peter Bosch]

> What PPC platforms can run Plan 9? I suppose 'not MAC' :-)

The 603e core is supported and we run Plan 9 on the PPC 8260
(i.e. PowerQuiccII), PPC 755 (embedded 603e) and the PPC Dave
mentioned.

peter.

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 for ppc

[Geoff Collyer]

I described the work necessary for a Mac port in
news:<45427616dfeeac8239866d30aed7d071@collyer.net> of 29 July 2002;
see the archives and search for "Plan 9 port needs", or
https://lists.cse.psu.edu/archives/9fans/2002-July/019237.html.