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Date:      Thu, 7 Sep 2000 12:32:53 -0700
From:      Paul Saab <paul@mu.org>
To:        Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/common boot.c module.c src/sys/boot/forth loader.conf src/sys/conf Makefile.alpha Makefile.i386 Makefile.pc98 kmod.mk src/share/mk bsd.own.mk
Message-ID:  <20000907123253.A85757@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000907180019.A3550@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@freebsd.org on Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 06:00:20PM %2B0100
References:  <nik@FreeBSD.org> <33883.968343705@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <20000907180019.A3550@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>

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Nik Clayton (nik@freebsd.org) wrote:
> > The IA-64 port is also essentially DEAD right now because the only person 
> > doing any work on it at all is David O'Brien and he's hit a wall of molasses
> > on the toolchain issues.  There's no closed doors in either case,
> > simply very little (or nothing) going on to report.
> 
> I did a similar search for "ia64" on the web site.  This turns up messages
> such as 
> 
>     http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=154269+157044+/usr/local/www/db/text/2000/freebsd-arch/20000521.freebsd-arch
> 
> and
> 
>     http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=157044+158859+/usr/local/www/db/text/2000/freebsd-arch/20000521.freebsd-arch
> 
> No offense intended to either Mike or Paul, but neither of those messages
> reads as a "We're looking for volunteers, feel free to help out".  Again,
> there's no information about an IA64 port in the projects page on the web
> site.

I certainly never meant for that to be the case.  Volunteers are always
welcome, but no one has popped their hands up and said "I want to help.".
You also have to remember that getting hardware out of Intel is like
pulling teeth and they are not going to talk.  The only reason the
project has an IA-64 is because Intel wants to sell them to Yahoo and
we told them without FreeBSD support, we wont use them.


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