Re: [9fans] big endian plan 9 machine?

2013-01-13 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com> wrote: >>> Blue Gene >>> >> >> hard to fit in the basement. > > How about an ipengine (mpc823)? I've got one gathering dust here. if there's a kernel for it, and i could find, it would be great. > I caution against working on

Re: [9fans] big endian plan 9 machine?

2013-01-13 Thread David Arnold
On 13/01/2013, at 2:21 PM, John Floren wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com> wrote: Blue Gene >>> >>> hard to fit in the basement. >> >> How about an ipengine (mpc823)? I've got one gathering dust here. > > I caution against working on any hardware

Re: [9fans] big endian plan 9 machine?

2013-01-13 Thread John Floren
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com> wrote: >>> Blue Gene >>> >> >> hard to fit in the basement. > > How about an ipengine (mpc823)? I've got one gathering dust here. > > I caution against working on any hardware which can no longer be purchased new (sparc32, alph

Re: [9fans] big endian plan 9 machine?

2013-01-13 Thread Richard Miller
>> Blue Gene >> > > hard to fit in the basement. How about an ipengine (mpc823)? I've got one gathering dust here.

Re: [9fans] big endian plan 9 machine?

2013-01-13 Thread John Floren
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 10:48 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Sun Jan 13 13:45:52 EST 2013, charles.fors...@gmail.com wrote: >> Blue Gene >> > > hard to fit in the basement. > > - erik > I don't know about the /Q's A2 processors, but you could at one point buy PPC440 development boards, which were

Re: [9fans] big endian plan 9 machine?

2013-01-13 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sun Jan 13 13:45:52 EST 2013, charles.fors...@gmail.com wrote: > Blue Gene > hard to fit in the basement. - erik

Re: [9fans] big endian plan 9 machine?

2013-01-13 Thread Charles Forsyth
Blue Gene On 13 January 2013 18:00, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > Charles, what sort of PPC hardware were you running on?

Re: [9fans] big endian plan 9 machine?

2013-01-13 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
to keep everybody honest, i'd like to dig up some sort of plausable big-endian machine. since the point here is to swat bugs, not write a new kernel, i would be especially nice if a kernel already existed. another big bonus would be hardware that still exists and doesn't require a soldering iron

Re: [9fans] big endian plan 9 machine?

2013-01-13 Thread Charles Forsyth
The distribution, I suppose, or something like it, and code we wrote. I don't know of any publicly-available big-endian machines to test new things. On 13 January 2013 17:45, erik quanstrom wrote: > are you speaking of the distribution, or of plan 9 code in general? > i was speaking of plan 9 cod

Re: [9fans] big endian plan 9 machine?

2013-01-13 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sun Jan 13 12:29:57 EST 2013, charles.fors...@gmail.com wrote: > I'd be surprised if there are too many endian problems, because > everything I tried ran happily on PowerPC > which is usually big-endian. are you speaking of the distribution, or of plan 9 code in general? i was speaking of plan

Re: [9fans] big endian plan 9 machine?

2013-01-13 Thread Charles Forsyth
I'd be surprised if there are too many endian problems, because everything I tried ran happily on PowerPC which is usually big-endian. On 13 January 2013 17:08, erik quanstrom wrote: > i'm sure that > we're in a similar situation with endianness, but perhaps even > worse.

[9fans] big endian plan 9 machine?

2013-01-13 Thread erik quanstrom
as it turns out there are a lot of crazy little bugs in the system due to running for so long on 32-bit machines. i'm sure that we're in a similar situation with endianness, but perhaps even worse. to keep everybody honest, i'd like to dig up some sort of plausable big-endian machine. since the

Re: [9fans] a disk filesystem for both Plan 9 and Linux?

2013-01-13 Thread Richard Miller
> Would be glad to have that patch. /n/sources/contrib/miller/ext2srv.tar Besides dealing with configurable-sized inodes, it allows you to mount a 'not clean' fs read-only, instead of refusing to mount at all. Sorry it doesn't fix the directory-indirect-block bug.

Re: [9fans] a disk filesystem for both Plan 9 and Linux?

2013-01-13 Thread Peter A. Cejchan
Yes. It was me. For the timer being, I tar the dirs w/too many files in. Would be glad to have that patch. Thanks, ++pac On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com> wrote: > Somebody recently reported a problem with ext2srv not working when > directories are huge enough