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From: Russ Cox <rsc@swt...>
Subject: Plan9port on x86-Solaris-10?
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 20:11:46 -0800
> Sparc-Blade-100 lab is being replaced with AMD-Opteron
> based Solaris-10 machines. Does plan9port work on this
> new platform?
The bulk of the code tree is completely portable.
The hard parts are getcallerpc (which is done for
amd64) and libtask (which might just work if Solaris
provides the relevant context functions and a good
pthreads library).
Russ