From owner-cvs-all Fri Sep 8 12:54: 1 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 237AA37B449; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 12:53:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk ([158.152.125.33] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13XUDd-000P6w-0X; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 20:53:50 +0100 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA12991; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 20:55:02 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 20:54:26 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Paul Saab Cc: Jordan Hubbard , Nik Clayton , Warner Losh , "David E. O'Brien" , cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/common boot.c module.c src/sys/boot/forth loader.conf src/sys/conf Makefile.alpha Makefile.i386 Makefile.pc98 kmod.mk src/share/mk bsd.own.mk In-Reply-To: <20000907123839.B85757@elvis.mu.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Paul Saab wrote: > Jordan Hubbard (jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com) wrote: > > I'm afraid that IPv6 is something which could be worked on by anyone > > with a standard PC and some time and inclination, however. I'm still > > curious to know how someone without an IA-64 could do much of tangible > > benefit, and most folks are in that boat whether they're FreeBSD > > committers or not. Let's not forget that much of the Linux IA-64 > > port was actually done by Intel engineers. :-( > > Intel is giving away for FREE their developer manuals on the IA-64, but > Jordan is right. Who's really going to work on a port without hardware? > I can get more hardware and get it shipped to people, but I am only going > to do that for someone who is willing to work on the port. I dont want > to waste my time harrassing Intel if someone is just going to sit on > their ass once they get the machine. Any takers???? I have some code already written for this but its a long way from being ready to even compile, let alone test. I'm likely to do initial testing using a simulator anyway so I don't need hardware. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 20 8348 3944 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message