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Date:      Fri, 27 Aug 1999 15:07:54 -0500 (CDT)
From:      David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD??? Intel? - NOT
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96.990827150446.61653A-100000@shell-1.enteract.com>
In-Reply-To: <199908271844.LAA29944@kithrup.com>

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On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Sean Eric Fagan wrote:

> In article <Pine.GSO.3.96.990827103350.1456C-100000.kithrup.freebsd.hackers@mission.mvnc.edu> you write:
> Look, people, the Merced WILL NOT excuse PA-RISC code directly.  It will be
> done via emulation/translation, and only a certain particular OS will be
> supported (HP-UX 11, I believe they stated -- since HP-UX 11 runs almost all
> HP-UX 10.* applications with no problem, I am _guessing_ that this means they
> will continue to work).

I just asked one of our HP people about this.  He says that anything that
runs on HP 11.0 PA-RISC will run on IA64.  It is his understanding that this
includes not only 10.x stuff, but also 9.x and 8.x stuff.  We have stuff
that runs on 11 that was originally compiled for 8.0.  

David Scheidt



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