64bit AIX shell account?
Nils Weller
I've recently written a PowerPC/AIX backend for my C compiler,
which is sort of functional by now. Unfortunately I only have
access to 32bit PowerPC hardware, and thus the backend is 32bit-
only.
But I'd really like to finish my PowerPC work for now and move
on to supporting PA-RISC or SPARC, so I have to ask: Would
anyone on this group be willing to provide me with remote (ssh
or telnet) access to a 64bit system?
The system should ideally run AIX 5.x and have gcc installed.
I'm guessing the port wouldn't take more than a week or two,
or maybe three, but afterwards I'd like to have occasional
access to the account as well, such that I can use it to develop
and test future updates.
If anyone can help me out, great! Otherwise I'll just do
something else instead ;-)
Thank you!
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Paul Pluzhnikov
> Would
> anyone on this group be willing to provide me with remote (ssh
> or telnet) access to a 64bit system?
There is no need: IBM already provides such access for free:
http://www-304.ibm.com/jct09002c/isv/marketing/industrynetworks/benefits/virtual_loaner.html
> The system should ideally run AIX 5.x and have gcc installed.
Both true.
> I'm guessing the port wouldn't take more than a week or two,
> or maybe three, but afterwards I'd like to have occasional
> access to the account as well, such that I can use it to develop
> and test future updates.
You can reserve the system for up to 2 weeks at a time,
and you can reserve it again later.
It worked quite nicely for me, except for occasional glitches in
the VPN gateway.
Cheers,
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Nils Weller
On 2006-09-10, Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhn...@charter.net> wrote:
> Nils Weller <m...@privacy.net> writes:
>
>> Would
>> anyone on this group be willing to provide me with remote (ssh
>> or telnet) access to a 64bit system?
>
> There is no need: IBM already provides such access for free:
> http://www-304.ibm.com/jct09002c/isv/marketing/industrynetworks/benefits/virtual_loaner.html
This looks too good to be true. The page says that I need a PartnerWorld
ID to register, and it doesn't seem easy to get one, as the PartnerWorld
registration page speaks of companies, business, commerce and such. Are
you sure this program is open to innocent hobbyists whose interests in
IBM software are in no way related to their employers?
Thanks for your help,
Mark Taylor
Integrators to have access to IBM h/w that they wouldnt normally have
accesss to but have a target customer base that means they should be
testing on that specific kit .. Obviously IBM expects some giveback for
this by helping the ISV build its customer base on IBM h/w ..
So if you are just doing this for your own benefit, then I doubt you
would get access via the program, .. however, you don't know until you
ask :)
Ref: http://www-304.ibm.com/jct09002c/isv/welcome/vic.html
Rgds
Mark Taylor
Nils Weller
Hmm, a growing amount of free software available for AIX is arguably
of benefit to IBM as well ;-) I also note that HP has been giving
out free free access to a wide variety of systems for many years. Not
that I ever used it much, but last I checked it was open to anyone,
the registration was quick and easy, and gcc as well as HP's
commercial compilers were installed. (Though it's probably the only
vendor of its kind that does this.)
So ... back to the original topic. Any other kind soul who could
help me out?
I'm already tempted to believe I'll never get access, because even
though I have at various times in the past received (and given away)
access to HP-UX, Solaris, Tru64, Digital UNIX, IRIX and others for
software porting - in some cases from total strangers - it seems no
AIX user would ever be caught dead doing that. Maybe it's because
AIX isn't overly popular among hobbyists?! ;-)
PA-RISC will be my next target then.
Mark Taylor
>> of benefit to IBM as well ;-)
Like I said, you dont know until you ask .. if your software is any
good, then you are in with a chance ..
Rgds
Mark Taylor
Frank Fegert
> On 2006-09-11, Mark Taylor <m...@talk21.com> wrote:
> Hmm, a growing amount of free software available for AIX is arguably
> of benefit to IBM as well ;-) I also note that HP has been giving
> out free free access to a wide variety of systems for many years. Not
> that I ever used it much, but last I checked it was open to anyone,
> the registration was quick and easy, and gcc as well as HP's
> commercial compilers were installed. (Though it's probably the only
> vendor of its kind that does this.)
I recently talked to a IBM sales drone about the exact same topic,
stating the exact same HP example. Background was, that after a
view mails and calls about their "Meet p5 *whatsitnamed*"-Program i
eventually ended up with someone who almost had a clue. He admitted,
that the "meet" was rather targeted at the potential paying customer
base, than the general public.
Mentioning the "doing the popularity of AIX a favour, by porting
OSS to the platform in your spare time"-argument didn't stick a
bit. The only comment on this was a reference to the PartnerWorld
program mentioned earlier. The fact that this is *also* targeted at
buisness partners didn't seem to bother.
Since getting recent RS/6000 resp. pSeries machines on the second
hand market - as compared to Sun gear for example - is still rather
expensive, if possible at all and considering IBMs unwillingness to
sponser non-buisness related efforts, i ended up with the sad feel-
ing, that the old saying "If you want something from IBM, you'll
have to beg - even if you're paying" still applies :-(
I just wonder how IBM wants to conquer new markets for its machines
with this kind of politics. OSS doesn't port itself, most of the
OSS developers don't have access to devel-machines and thus don't
bother with AIX to begin with and IMHO markets besides IBMs traditional
ones (e.g. finance, trade, insurance, engineering) have a rather
strong interest in readily available OSS software ...
> So ... back to the original topic. Any other kind soul who could
> help me out?
>
> I'm already tempted to believe I'll never get access, because even
> though I have at various times in the past received (and given away)
> access to HP-UX, Solaris, Tru64, Digital UNIX, IRIX and others for
> software porting - in some cases from total strangers - it seems no
> AIX user would ever be caught dead doing that. Maybe it's because
> AIX isn't overly popular among hobbyists?! ;-)
It is. It's just an expensive hobby, if your prequisites are 64Bit
Arch ;-) See PM.
Regards,
Frank