From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:24:53 -0200 From: "Iruata Souza" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Installing Plan9 on a DEC Alpha Workstation In-Reply-To: <621112A569DAE948AD25CCDCF1C0753303CBB5@dolly.ntdom.cupdx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <621112A569DAE948AD25CCDCF1C0753303CBB5@dolly.ntdom.cupdx> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 53b82624-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Benjamin Huntsman wrote: > > AS600 has an EV5 cpu, not an EV56, so IIRC you might have to clean up some assembler code and add some assembler for drivers to work properly without BWX instructions > > Last time I tried, you can get Plan 9 to build with the -b flag to the compiler. (at least I think it's -b... there's definitely a "no-bwx" switch.) I was able to get the bootloader working on my Multia, but couldn't get it to download the config file via my Mac OS X-hosted tftp server. It'd at least get to that point, though... > > I'm getting inspired to give it another try now that I've got an XP1000... > the switch is -x. I have an AlphaServer 2100A running VMS too. It would be really nice to run Plan 9 on it. iru