Re: [9fans] Experiments in the wild

[Erik Quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

Make sure you have modified vl nop.c to emit the anti triple store bit and make sure that there is a proper root.  I had a machine hang just like that this week.

- erik


lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote:

>I have a MikroTik 411 that will soon be deployed as a Wi-Fi link to
>the Internet and in the absence of any other manner to mess with it
>until then, I decided to see how far a Plan 9 installation would go:
>
>	
>	Plan 9
>	cpu0: 680MHz mips 24k be v3.5 rev 0, no fpu
>	cpu0: 16 tlb entries, using 4K pages
>	cpu0: l1 i cache: 512 sets 4 ways 32 bytes/line
>	cpu0: l1 d cache: 256 sets 4 ways 32 bytes/linecaches configured as write-through
>	256M memory: 53M kernel data, 203M user, 1227M swap
>	#l0: atheros71xx: 1Gbps port 0X1A000000 irq 5: d4ca6d7df1ce
>	#l1: atheros71xx: 1Gbps port 0X19000000 irq 4: d4ca6d7df1cf
>
>It stops there, but there are enough lies in the above to accept that
>verdict.
>
>Still, it shows promise, given that this is 9rb created from the
>distribution.  I don't think I have the know-how to fix it (I may do
>at least some digging, though), but I thought others may find this at
>least interesting.
>
>In passing, having to build the user space for MIPS, I found that it
>helps if /mips/bin/contrib is writable by the builder: it is not
>created by default, but it comes in handy for those of us who may have
>something that will be installed in it.
>
>++L
>
>
>