From owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 28 11:02:28 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8884C16A41F for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 11:02:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from owner-bugmaster@freebsd.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAC7543D5D for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 11:02:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from owner-bugmaster@freebsd.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (peter@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id jASB23HZ088170 for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 11:02:03 GMT (envelope-from owner-bugmaster@freebsd.org) Received: (from peter@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.3/8.13.1/Submit) id jASB23YB088163 for freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 11:02:03 GMT (envelope-from owner-bugmaster@freebsd.org) Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 11:02:03 GMT Message-Id: <200511281102.jASB23YB088163@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: peter set sender to owner-bugmaster@freebsd.org using -f From: FreeBSD bugmaster To: freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: Current problem reports assigned to you X-BeenThere: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the IA-64 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 11:02:28 -0000 Current FreeBSD problem reports Critical problems Serious problems S Submitted Tracker Resp. 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From owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 30 07:38:38 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C255016A41F for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 07:38:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from christian.hildner@hob.de) Received: from mailgate.hob.de (mailgate.hob.de [62.91.19.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4027443D5D for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 07:38:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from christian.hildner@hob.de) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mailgate.hob.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 769451C88C for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 08:38:36 +0100 (CET) Received: from mailgate.hob.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mailgate.hob.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 26141-05 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 08:38:36 +0100 (CET) Received: from imap.hob.de (mail2.hob.de [172.25.1.102]) by mailgate.hob.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AFBD1C88B for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 08:38:36 +0100 (CET) Received: from hob.de (hildnecn-1.hob.de [172.22.80.122]) by imap.hob.de (Postfix on SuSE eMail Server 2.0) with ESMTP id 544E42B33 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 08:37:43 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <438D56FB.90703@hob.de> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 08:38:35 +0100 From: Christian Hildner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-DE; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: de-de, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at hob.de Cc: Subject: BSD on SGI machines X-BeenThere: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the IA-64 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 07:38:38 -0000 Hi, has anyone ever tested freebsd on SGI Itanium machines? Thanks Christian From owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 30 16:26:00 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3377A16A41F for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:26:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from b.j.casavant@ieee.org) Received: from yeppers.tdkt.org (skyline.tdkt.org [209.98.211.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F3B043D45 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:25:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from b.j.casavant@ieee.org) Received: from chenjesu.americas.sgi.com (cfcafwp.sgi.com [192.48.179.6]) (authenticated bits=0) by yeppers.tdkt.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/erikj-OpenBSD) with ESMTP id jAUGPrL3000333; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 10:25:57 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 10:25:48 -0600 (CST) From: Brent Casavant X-X-Sender: bcasavan@chenjesu.americas.sgi.com To: Christian Hildner In-Reply-To: <438D56FB.90703@hob.de> Message-ID: <20051130101506.X10471@chenjesu.americas.sgi.com> References: <438D56FB.90703@hob.de> Organization: "Angeltread Software Organization" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD on SGI machines X-BeenThere: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Brent Casavant List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the IA-64 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:26:00 -0000 On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Christian Hildner wrote: > has anyone ever tested freebsd on SGI Itanium machines? Not that I'm aware of. Also, the Altix machines have a very different system architecture, such that I can pretty much guarantee that FreeBSD IA64 won't work as-is -- it's really not even worth trying. I'm not sure what SGI's stance would be on releasing the necessary documentation to make BSD work. Several years ago I managed to get a VP to agree to release some information for the Indigo R4000 machines so that the NetBSD folks could use it -- but I think he agreed mostly because the machine was beyond even hardware spares support at that point. That said, that effort predated any real public Linux involvement by SGI, so maybe the outlook on hardware specs has changed. Your best bet, if you wanted to start adding support, might be divining hardware programming information from Linux kernel source (though of course not directly using their code). Brent -- Brent Casavant Dance like everybody should be watching. www.angeltread.org KD5EMB, EN34lv From owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 30 20:40:03 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E23FE16A41F for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 20:40:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from adcnw@cloud9.net) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0303043DA7 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 20:39:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from adcnw@cloud9.net) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 432B817135 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 15:39:35 -0500 (EST) Received: from mediamax4 (170-243.customer.cloud9.net [168.100.170.243]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9645717135 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 15:39:34 -0500 (EST) From: "adcnw" To: Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 15:39:34 -0500 Message-ID: <000001c5f5ee$2c7035a0$7002a8c0@mediamax4> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 Importance: Normal X-AntiVirus: Checked by Vexira Antivirus v1.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: ia64/ HP Zx2000 Itanium 2 64Bit workstation X-BeenThere: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the IA-64 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 20:40:03 -0000 Regarding a message you posted in 2004 for HP zx2000 workstations that were for sale, are any of these still available? Thanks From owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 1 10:07:35 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6342416A41F for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2005 10:07:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from christian.hildner@hob.de) Received: from mailgate.hob.de (mailgate.hob.de [62.91.19.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6429543D70 for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2005 10:07:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from christian.hildner@hob.de) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mailgate.hob.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86AA31C86D; Thu, 1 Dec 2005 11:07:29 +0100 (CET) Received: from mailgate.hob.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mailgate.hob.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 23515-03; Thu, 1 Dec 2005 11:07:27 +0100 (CET) Received: from imap.hob.de (mail2.hob.de [172.25.1.102]) by mailgate.hob.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F8181C86A; Thu, 1 Dec 2005 11:07:27 +0100 (CET) Received: from hob.de (hildnecn-1.hob.de [172.22.80.122]) by imap.hob.de (Postfix on SuSE eMail Server 2.0) with ESMTP id 42E412C57; Thu, 1 Dec 2005 11:06:29 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <438ECB5D.2030401@hob.de> Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 11:07:26 +0100 From: Christian Hildner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-DE; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: de-de, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brent Casavant References: <438D56FB.90703@hob.de> <20051130101506.X10471@chenjesu.americas.sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at hob.de Cc: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD on SGI machines X-BeenThere: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the IA-64 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 10:07:35 -0000 Hi Brent, thanks for confirming what I had in mind. >Your best bet, if you wanted to start adding support, might be divining >hardware programming information from Linux kernel source (though of >course not directly using their code). > Yes, the Linux sources are probably the best platform documentation one could get. And transfering the concepts without direct copy would be the way to go. Since we don't have any SGI machine yet and also there is no urgent need for it this topic may come up again at some later time. However if anyone is interested in a SGI port feel free to contact us. Christian