From cse.psu.edu!9fans-outgoing-owner Fri Mar 1 12:04:06 1996 Received: from colossus.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.1.2]) by cannon.ecf.toronto.edu with SMTP id <2214>; Fri, 1 Mar 1996 12:03:58 -0500 Received: by colossus.cse.psu.edu id <78419>; Fri, 1 Mar 1996 11:50:59 -0500 Received: from plan9.ecf.toronto.edu ([128.100.8.8]) by colossus.cse.psu.edu with SMTP id <78420>; Fri, 1 Mar 1996 11:50:41 -0500 From: steve@plan9.ecf.toronto.edu To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 11:49:59 -0500 Subject: beta indy kernel available for testing Message-Id: <96Mar1.115041est.78420@colossus.cse.psu.edu> Sender: owner-9fans@cse.psu.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Status: RO A limited (but functional) indy cpuserver kernel is now working. The boddle is at ftp://ftp.ecf.toronto.edu/pub/plan9/steve/indy.bod To apply the boddle, create /sys/src/9/indy, and copy all the files from /sys/src/9/chm to it, then run the boddle and copy the new files to /sys/src/9/indy. This is a cpu kernel, so it does not support the Indy graphics. It also has problems getting the ethernet address from the nvram, so the ethernet driver (devseq.c) has been kludged to force the correct address for my indy. You'll have to hardwire it for your system until this is fixed. Just search for 'kludge' in devseq.c Since this kernel is based on the 9chm kernel, they share the other limitations listed in "The Various Ports". My indy has an R4000SC cpu, so I'd be interested in hearing from people with other cpus. Send comments to steve@ecf.toronto.edu please. Thanks to forsyth, jmk, and presotto for their guidance.