Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 11:34:44 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: bpechter@shell.monmouth.com Cc: sparc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Sparc port going 64 bit Message-ID: <XFMail.001025113444.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200010251627.e9PGRhX06054@bg-tc-ppp808.monmouth.com>
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On 25-Oct-00 Bill Pechter wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 08:40:02AM -0400, Bill Pechter wrote: > >> > FreeBSD is the best Unix for i386... but we've not shown any real moves to >> > the multiplatform area. >> >> Uh... the Alpha? The IA-64? The Mac-PowerPC? >> >> -- >> -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) >> > Not to disagree, but the Alpha is it at this time. Period. > > Anyone have FreeBSD running on an IA-64 at this time in real production? > Does intel use it in production yet? Bet they're not yet. Does a production IA-64 exist yet? No. As far as porting goes, getting a platform to boot into single user mode and do an 'ls' on a memory disk is quite an achievement. Other OS's have ports that don't get that far. > Hell, the chip's not even available to us everyday folks. > > as far as PowerPC -- > Anyone have it running on a PowerPC box at this time in production? Not yet, no. They do have the loader ported and running though on a G3 or G4 (not sure which one Benno is using). -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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