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To: James Howard <howardjp@glue.umd.edu>
Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>,
	Belldandy <narumi@tpts5.seed.net.tw>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: An IA-64 port? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 04 Jun 2000 00:59:10 EDT."
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Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2000 00:04:00 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
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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?

That depends on what resources you have.  Some of you out there have
IA-64 machines of your own due to affiliations your company might have
with Intel, others of you are compiler / driver / kernel wizards who
often work straight from specs just for the sheer perversity of it,
if nothing else. :)

In other words, you tell us!

- Jordan


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