...85ghz woodcrest. ; cd /sys/src/fs/kibbiee ; mk clean; time /dev/null 1.22u 1.17s 2.16r mk ; cd /sys/src/9/pc ; mk clean; time mk 'CONF=pc'>/dev/null 3.80u 3.35s 5.71r mk CONF=pc that's with just one of the on-board nics using standard frames and ken's fileserver serving files via il. - erik

...cee, but one still has to interface with the boot rom, figure out how to find and configure memory, set up interrupts, figure out how to talk to the bus, how to print "hello, world", etc. ignoring the pc, since it's a pig, here's how much code is in each of the various ports (my somewhat out-of-date copy): bitsy 15240 ppc 10315 mtx 7863 while new ports will be great, you need to ...

... PPC as someone else mentioned. There is no doubt that plan9 is both portable and has a good dynamic range, from Bitsy to larger X86 boxes with multiple processors. So I am not depressed at all. Supporting new hardware takes lots of work. I've written more IO drivers in my life than most of you. It's a lot of work. Personally if I was going to work on a plan9 porting I would focus on three ...

On 3/27/07, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote: arm ppc x86_64 not a bad choice, what else would you want to run on? thanks ron What's the story on Plan 9 on Mac hardware? I just picked up an old PowerMac 9600. John -- Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 12:42:22PM -0300, Iruata Souza wrote: On 3/27/07, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote: arm ppc x86_64 not a bad choice, what else would you want to run on? mips sparc hppa power cell .. everything. Small and old real boxen in particular. What does plan9 need GHz for anyway ;)

> i should perhaps elaborate: sicortex stick 5000+ 64-bit mips cpus (each 1gflop, 972 six-way smp compute nodes) onto a single backplane connected in a Kautz topology. their whitepapers are quite interesting. won an award at SC'06, if i remember correctly. On 3/28/07, andrey mirtchovski <mirtchovski@gmail.com> wrote: Anyone else see this blurb? http://www....

however, their flash presentation should be skipped: "Each node implements six full 64-bit Linux processors..." ? that's almost a fortune. - erik On Wed Mar 28 12:22:20 EDT 2007, mirtchovski@gmail.com wrote: i should perhaps elaborate: sicortex stick 5000+ 64-bit mips cpus (each 1gflop, 972 six-way smp compute nodes) onto a single backplane connected in a Kautz topology....

On 3/28/07, Iruata Souza <iru.muzgo@gmail.com> wrote: mips Dang, can't find it, but there's some startup that's basically building huge, single-board MIPS clusters using a mix of newer chips for the interconnects and networking to keep latency down, and older CPUs to keep heat and expense down. Anyone else see this blurb? -Jack

>ppc 10315 that's possibly a little misleading: that includes a private copy of devtls.c (2113 lines), and there are at least two different platforms in that one directory

David Arnold a écrit : -->"leb" == Lawrence E Bakst <ml@iridescent.org> writes: Alpha is gone, Sparc is Sun only, MIPs might survive as an embedded architecture. The big 3 going forward are X86, ARM, and PPC as someone else mentioned. MIPS has had somewhat of a resurgence recently, with many domestic gateway/router/wifi boxes using, eg. Broadcom MIPS32...