How-To Build and Boot Plan 9 on BG/P==================================== This is the source tree for the HARE project.  In order to buildthe Plan 9 kernel for Blue Gene you will need to download a normalPlan 9 distribution from http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9.  ThePlan 9 distribution can be run under VMware, Qemu, or on standardPC hardware if you have devices which it supports. In order to build a crossbuild environment to the /sys/src directory within your Plan 9 environment and build the PowerPC version of thePlan 9 distribution: % cd /sys/src% objtype=power mk installall Once this completes, you can go into the hare source tree within thePlan 9 environment and build the kernel: % cd /usr/username/src/hare/sys/src/9k/bgp% mk The resulting 9bgp.elf and can be copied to your BG/P front end and usedas a kernel for either the IO node or the CNK node. You can see an example of our Blue Gene/P front end environment that isintended to run on top of Inferno (http://code.google.com/p/inferno-os) in hare/usr/inferno/appl/cmd