Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 11:52:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: <alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Hammer (fwd) Message-ID: <20011026115226.S68844-100000@wonky.feral.com>
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Interesting discussion on Linux list... I've heard that Hammer has legs... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 12:51:53 -0600 From: Maurice Hilarius <maurice@harddata.com> Reply-To: axp-list@redhat.com To: axp-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: Hammer With regards to your message at 12:30 PM 10/26/01, Peter Watkinson. Where you stated: >OK we've seen about Itanium and how much that costs how about the AMD Hammer >what I've heard is that it should debut in 1H 02 and be clocked at about >2ghz. Will it run x86 linux out of the box or will it need it's own >distribution? Has anyone any idea what it will cost? Does anyone know what >the projected Spec or other Benchmark figures are? > >Now that Alpha seems to be swimming with the fishes we'll have to consider >the alternatives and Hammer seems to me like it has the most similarity to >the Alpha - or maybe it just appeals because it's not made by Intel! http://www2.amd.com:80/us-en/Processors/DevelopWithAMD/0,,30_2252_875,00.html http://www.x86-64.org/%22%20target=%22new%22 And, most importantly: http://www.x86-64.org/downloads Where you will find the following good info, and lots of downloads: " AMD SimNow! Simulator Here's what all you kernel hackers have dreamed of: an x86 system simulator running under GNU/Linux! The simulated system contains an x86-64 technology-enabled chip, RAM, disks, and VGA. You can single-step the CPU, peek at registers and memory, and lots of other fun stuff. For now, you can only run 32-bit GNU/Linux because SimNow x86-64 does not support the swapgs instruction that is used by the 64-bit Linux kernel port. But, you can play with 64-bit mode, and you can debug those pesky 32-bit kernel bugs without having to hard-boot your hardware all the time. The simulator is only available as a binary RPM because it contains some proprietary code. RPMs are available for SuSE 6.4 and Red Hat 6.2 systems. The simulator was written by AMD and ported to GNU/Linux by CodeSourcery. Note: We expect an update of SimNow that supports the complete x86-64 instruction set so that you can use the x86-64 Linux kernel on it." Have fun! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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