From owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 10 17:41:22 2005 Return-Path: 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 B6AC316A4CE for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 17:41:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.bayarea.net [209.128.86.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7848943D31 for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 17:41:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Received: from [192.168.4.250] (dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.250]) by ns1.xcllnt.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j1AHfMmE074866; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:41:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Marcel Moolenaar Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:41:21 -0800 To: m X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) cc: "freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: FreeBSD IA64 5.3/RELEASE on Compaq DL590. (boot error) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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, 10 Feb 2005 17:41:22 -0000 On Feb 10, 2005, at 9:33 AM, m wrote: > How "compatible" is the IA64 in 32-bit mode? > > i.e. Could I use the ida(4) driver from the i386 build, as compiled > for x86? No. The kernel and its modules/drivers run in native mode only. The ia32 emulation only applies to user programs. > or, could it simply be recompiled on IA64? That wouldn't help, because the driver is already compiled on ia64. In this case the source code needs to be fixed. -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net