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Date:      Thu, 18 May 2000 01:46:19 -0700
From:      Paul Saab <paul@mu.org>
To:        Rasmus Skaarup <rasmus@gal.dk>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Itanium
Message-ID:  <20000518014619.A58363@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005180952430.71260-100000@skaarup.org>; from rasmus@gal.dk on Thu, May 18, 2000 at 09:58:10AM %2B0200
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005180952430.71260-100000@skaarup.org>

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Rasmus Skaarup (rasmus@gal.dk) wrote:
> 
> RedHat has released a alpha distribution for the 64-bit Itanium
> processor. 
> 
> http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2571379,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01
> 
> And SGI is on the wagon aswell.
> 
> http://www.sgi.com/newsroom/press_releases/2000/may/linux-ia64.html
> 
> What is the plans for FreeBSD, will there be an Itanium distro? If so, is
> there any time schedule?

Work is underway.  The people involved are only a month into it, and I
dont think it will be done any time soon.  The hope is to have support
for it when Intel launches.

-- 
Paul Saab
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