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Date:      Wed, 29 Aug 2001 03:17:11 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        m p <sumirati@yahoo.de>, maillists@barrelshifter.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IA64 FreeBSD port
Message-ID:  <20010829031708.C68729@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010829030946.B68729@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 03:09:47AM -0700
References:  <20010829095422.9678.qmail@web13307.mail.yahoo.com> <20010829030946.B68729@xor.obsecurity.org>

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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 That page is a bit out of date..things have progressed somewhat,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

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