[9fans] Re: ppc64 plan9 port

[9fans] Re: ppc64 plan9 port

[Eric Van Hensbergen]

On 8/7/05, Jeff Sickel <jas@corpus-callosum.com> wrote:
> Any news or links on the progress of the ppc port?  Running the
> plan9port on OSX works quite well for many things, but there I'd
> still like to take older G4 hardware and start using it--are rework a
> few services in the mean time.
> 

The main thing I've been pushing towards is a ppc64 port.  Forsyth is
working on the compiler now, once that is done we can see about
getting it running on G5s and IBM pBlades (and potentially Cell).  Not
sure if anyone is working on a ppc32 port -- I did see some mention of
going after an iMac port on a CMU prof's page
(http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~412/projects/9mac/) and others (newsham?) have
talked about it before.

              -eric

[9fans] Re: ppc64 plan9 port

[Dave Eckhardt]

> Not sure if anyone is working on a ppc32 port -- I did
> see some mention of going after an iMac port on a CMU
> prof's page (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~412/projects/9mac/)
> and others (newsham?) have talked about it before.

We had some success on that front last semester.

One of the team members has spent some time over the past
two weeks cleaning up the code, so we're very close to
making it available...  look for an official announcement
from them soon.

Dave Eckhardt