From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 29 3:17:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-54.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C154D37B401 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 03:17:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3C14F66DE9; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 03:17:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 03:17:11 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Kris Kennaway Cc: m p , maillists@barrelshifter.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IA64 FreeBSD port Message-ID: <20010829031708.C68729@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20010829095422.9678.qmail@web13307.mail.yahoo.com> <20010829030946.B68729@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="HG+GLK89HZ1zG0kk" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010829030946.B68729@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 03:09:47AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --HG+GLK89HZ1zG0kk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 03:09:47AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > That page is a bit out of date..things have progressed somewhat, > though there's a great shortage of developers with a) hardware and b) > time to work on the port, and c) ability to do so. Contact the ia64 > mailing list about how you might go about bootstrapping and testing > the port. A word of caution though; there are sharp corners and you > may lose a finger or two along the way :) >=20 > If you're not afraid of that, we'd love to have you! Actually, I was being even more optimistic than I thought. No-one has written the IA64 boot loader code yet, so the only hardware the port (mostly) runs on isn't hardware, but the IA64 simulator. IA64 coders needed! Can you help? Kris --HG+GLK89HZ1zG0kk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7jMEjWry0BWjoQKURAvd5AJ9GPQ3M5JlXSnYRwzWi9sLCCUS2ZQCg3B6h GNNxDa7L6H5czjB2jF6Z9+8= =1+xc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --HG+GLK89HZ1zG0kk-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message