Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 10:47:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: howardjp@glue.umd.edu, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, narumi@tpts5.seed.net.tw Subject: Re: An IA-64 port? Message-ID: <200006041447.KAA73960@lakes.dignus.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0006040058530.6747-100000@z.glue.umd.edu>
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> > On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > Intel has furnished us with IA-64 hardware and a porting effort is > > already underway. Contact obrien@freebsd.org if you would like to > > help out in some way with the process. > > What can those of us just out here do? > > I believe HP provides a IA64 emultor which runs on Linux/Windows? I recall stumbling into when looking at the IA64 compiler that SGI recently releases. One guess might be to: 1) Get the IA64 emulator running under FreeBSD 2) Get FreeBSD up under the IA64 emulator 3) Start working on bugs? [Although, I could be totally wrong about the emulator... need to look around on the SGI web pages where I recall the link...] - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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