9legacy

Here is a list of recommended hardware to run Plan 9. All these machines are known to be supported by the current Plan 9 from Bell Labs, NIX and 9k distributions but could require some minor patches. They are good-quality hardware that can still be bought today.

If you are installing Plan 9 from CD-ROM, you may want to add the sdiahci driver to the pcflop kernel, since they are missing from the default configuration file. A patch is available.

• Supermicro X7SLA
• • kmesg - pci

• Supermicro X7SPA-H-D525
• • kmesg - pci

• Supermicro X9SAE-V
• • kmesg - pci

• Supermicro X10SAE
• • kmesg - pci
  • This Intel i210 and i217 Ethernet controller are not supported by Plan 9 yet. However, you can easily add Intel i210 support with this patch.