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Date:      Sun, 4 Jun 2000 19:43:23 +0300
From:      Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com>
To:        Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: An IA-64 port?
Message-ID:  <20000604194323.A23321@happy.checkpoint.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000604111222.C47877@argon.gryphonsoft.com>; from andrews@technologist.com on Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 11:12:22AM -0400
References:  <39393DEF.B91727B0@tpts5.seed.net.tw> <20000604111222.C47877@argon.gryphonsoft.com>

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On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 11:12:22AM -0400, Will Andrews wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 01:18:39AM +0800, Belldandy wrote:
> >   Is there any effort(or at least, any thought) on making an
> > IA-64 port of FreeBSD? It seems Intel is trying to push IA-64
> > to be 'the platform' for servers and workstations, and I think
> > FreeBSD definitely can't be left out....
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Just new information for you:  David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
> imported GCC 2.96 into -current's tree early this morning.  The build
> succeeded on my system, so I should have a compiler with rudimentary
> (i.e. "pre-alpha") support for IA-64 once I reboot.

Do you mean just "you" or "anyone with -current"? I thought our binutils
(e.g. gas) had no IA-64 support. Has that changed?

-- 
Anatoly Vorobey,
mellon@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~mellon/
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