Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:14:21 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=C9meric_Maschino?= <emeric.maschino@gmail.com> To: Kevin Day <kevin@your.org> Cc: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP rx8620 - ia64 packages. Message-ID: <CAA9xbM6EaS5ajHBu2Va4yrKp_AT=oxQWzbh_%2Bt0bfmLCgqDqzA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <E54784A4-8631-4DF7-9147-9827BE7EBF24@your.org> References: <201303222101.r2ML10v7085020@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <E54784A4-8631-4DF7-9147-9827BE7EBF24@your.org>
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Hi,
I regularly try to install FreeBSD on my zx6000. Last time, back in
May, I was getting machine checks [1]. Despite the help of the ia64
FreeBSD list, I couldn't go further (last attempt in July [2]). So, I
can't tell that I'm an ia64 FreeBSD user right now ;-)
BTW, even if I can manage to install FreeBSD on my box, I'm one a the
few, even on the Linux side, to use it as a desktop system (since it's
a workstation, not a server) so I'm hitting various issues, e.g. about
3D graphics on the Linux side (although lspci rewrite, switch to KMS
and Gallium3D r300 helped a lot) vs no X server available at all on
the FreeBSD side. I know that resources are unfortunately scarce...
Emeric
[1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ia64/2012-July/003323.html
[2] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ia64/2012-July/003323.html
2013/3/22 Kevin Day <kevin@your.org>:
>
> On Mar 22, 2013, at 4:01 PM, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Regarding the packages, I have a desire for
>> an official package built to be set up again.
>> But somebody will have to step up to do the job.
>> Mark Linimon (I don't know if you are familiar
>> with FreeBSD/ia64 or new, so you might know
>> this already) was instrumental in making it work,
>> but he recently stepped down from whatever
>> ports position he held. Not sure if the new
>> person is willing to help with ia64 portscluster.
>>
>> Last time, about 6-9 months ago, we managed to build >15k ports.
>>
>
> I'm currently building i386, amd64 and sparc64 packages for 9.1, 9.0 and 8.3, which we make publicly available. If I can get this beast running, i'll get ia64 packages going too. Right now just waiting for the appropriate power to be run.
>
>> I also keep a page on browsers on ia64:
>> http://seis.bris.ac.uk/~mexas/freebsd/ia64/browsers.html
>>
>> Regarding the users - I was told repeatedly that
>> I account for the majority of FreeBSD/ia64 user base.
>
> That's a shame - maybe this will change as more ia64 boxes enter the used market where they're in the budgets for users who don't need to use a supported OS.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -- Kevin
>
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