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Did Russ just bail??
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Russ Cox
Sent: Wed 2/20/2008 10:13 AM
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] New to plan 9: what next?
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Or perhaps someone should write a
Is there a version for the Alpha architecture?
Nope, at least not in binary form. You'll have to get a working Plan 9 on x86
first, then compile it yourself. Once your x86 Plan 9 is running, getting it
to build the Alpha version is pretty simple.
Getting it to boot -your- AlphaStation might
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
Are you using the newest bootalphapc? I was working on it a while back and
noticed that it didn't get all the PALcode entry points right. Also, you need
to use the OSF/1 PALcode, not the VMS one. You can change it by set os_type
unix.
-Ben
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I've been playing around with the plan9port version of upas, which seems to
have some major holes in it. Anyone gotten this to work? For reference, I'm
working on a MacOSX system.
Building smtpd required building libndb with csgetval.c, which is commented out
in the mkfile, and required a
Anyone remember off the top of their heads why the Alpha bootloader had to be
downloaded over TFTP? Is there a good reason why it couldn't be started from a
floppy (or hard disk)?
Last time I tried to get it up and running, the Alpha boot stuff didn't like
being served from a non-Plan9
