From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 13:50:23 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] build iso's plan9 for amd64, atom, arm, powerpc Topicbox-Message-UUID: fba77f52-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed Jan 2 13:42:10 EST 2013, cardifrancesco@gmail.com wrote: > Hello I have read many useful information on the net but I have not > found specific details to create the image of plan 9 for each > platform, I saw the patch applied by 9legacy but the notes are not > very detailed, who can give me the documentation for create iso differ > according to the architecture of use, I want to create an iso for > amd64, one per atom, one for arm and finally one for powerpc, I think > it's also nice that anyone can download from the internet without > trying to infinity, let me know. i currently have an iso image with amd64, arm, and 386 binaries. it's not tested because i am waiting on a sata cd drive. however, it's not clear to me that the binaries are anything but dead weight in the cd because if you can run amd64, you should be able to install as a 386 machine and compile /sys/src yourself. if you've got an arm, then i am not sure how it makes sense to boot from an iso image. how does that work. in any event, you can install on a 386 and move onto arm from there. it's probablly not ideal, but it should work. i'm wondering if the install media should contain nothing but the source, a bootstrap loader, a kernel and just enough binaries to be able to compile all the source for whatever arches you're interested in. - erik