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From: "Eric Van Hensbergen" <ericvh@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on IBM hardware
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On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Benjamin Huntsman
<BHuntsman@mail2.cu-portland.edu> wrote:
> just a quick question...
>
> Has anyone managed to run Plan 9 on a pSeries system?
>

Not that I know of, although a port to the PAPR virtualization layer
would not be difficult.  The closest is probably the libOS work I did
(which was a modified Inferno kernel) that ran on PAPR, but I didn't
end up implementing the disk or network virtualized I/O as I just used
9P over shared memory.

The PS3/Cell port would have many of the same requirements (from the
base CPU/MMU architecture anyways) as a Power4 port (and vice-versa).

               -eric