* [9front] 9front on PowerMac
@ 2020-12-17 19:31 shepard47
2020-12-17 21:40 ` Steve Simon
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From: shepard47 @ 2020-12-17 19:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9front
Hi,
I have an iMac G5 and my plan is to run Plan 9 on it.
Has anyone done this before and how is it possible?
shepard
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* Re: [9front] 9front on PowerMac
2020-12-17 19:31 [9front] 9front on PowerMac shepard47
@ 2020-12-17 21:40 ` Steve Simon
2020-12-17 22:03 ` David Arnold
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From: Steve Simon @ 2020-12-17 21:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9front
i dont know of any port.
i also think the hardware of the ppc macs is not well documented, which would make a port very hard.
if this is your first experiment with plan9 i would reccomend you start with an x86 pc, or a raspberry pi. these are the best supported platforms at the moment.
these are my opinions of course, others may disagree.
-Steve
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* Re: [9front] 9front on PowerMac
2020-12-17 21:40 ` Steve Simon
@ 2020-12-17 22:03 ` David Arnold
2020-12-18 12:21 ` shepard47
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From: David Arnold @ 2020-12-17 22:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9front
David Arnold
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> On 18 Dec 2020, at 08:41, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
>
> i dont know of any port.
>
> i also think the hardware of the ppc macs is not well documented, which would make a port very hard.
There are two different PPC Macintosh architectures from Apple: the initial systems were NuBus-based, while later models adopted the PCI bus. Associated with that change was a general adoption of the “PC” architecture, eg. switching from SCSI discs to IDE.
There are open source operating systems for both architectures available should you need example code.
d
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* Re: [9front] 9front on PowerMac
2020-12-17 22:03 ` David Arnold
@ 2020-12-18 12:21 ` shepard47
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From: shepard47 @ 2020-12-18 12:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9front
Thank you. I have linux running on the machine.
On what PowerPC hardware does 9front work?
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On Thursday, December 17, 2020 11:03 PM, David Arnold <davida@pobox.com> wrote:
> David Arnold
> 0487 183 494
>
> > On 18 Dec 2020, at 08:41, Steve Simon steve@quintile.net wrote:
> > i dont know of any port.
> > i also think the hardware of the ppc macs is not well documented, which would make a port very hard.
>
> There are two different PPC Macintosh architectures from Apple: the initial systems were NuBus-based, while later models adopted the PCI bus. Associated with that change was a general adoption of the “PC” architecture, eg. switching from SCSI discs to IDE.
>
> There are open source operating systems for both architectures available should you need example code.
>
> d
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