Hello all. I just lately installed Plan 9, but the stock system is built for 32-bit x86, and I have an amd64 computer.
I found this diff: http://9legacy.org/9legacy/patch/nix.diff which seems to have all needed system libraries, and its own kernel, but the kernel seems to lack basic functionality, such as graphics and mouse, and I can't find the local bootloader for it — the stock bootloader chokes with message "bad kernel format", and on the nix web site it says only to build pxe bootloader, which is not what I need. It seems that nix is meant for cpu servers, not terminals. I need, if my ken of 9jargon is not wrong, a terminal kernel. In an earlier thread, "9vx instability", F. J. Ballesteros said this: "Jim, Charles, and others made an excellent port for amd64 ... We used that as a starting point for nix." Is this the legendary amd64 port? Is it available? I feel a bit lost. In the documentation, the authours emphasize its portability, yet to actually build for another architecture seems quite a bother, regrettably, since I was quite enthusiastic to use it as my primary system. Anyhow, I would be glad of any pointers to an amd64 port or instructions to do same. Cheers, strake
