From owner-freebsd-ia64 Thu May 30 19:47:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from kayak.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.bayarea.net [209.128.86.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6798637B401 for ; Thu, 30 May 2002 19:47:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.201]) by kayak.xcllnt.net (8.11.6/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g4V2lmJ69650; Thu, 30 May 2002 19:47:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@kayak.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4V2lpGc002311; Thu, 30 May 2002 19:47:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4V2lo2F002310; Thu, 30 May 2002 19:47:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel) Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 19:47:50 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Daniel Blankensteiner Cc: freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ready? Message-ID: <20020531024750.GA2159@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <02a801c207ed$728b71a0$6800a8c0@rafter> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <02a801c207ed$728b71a0$6800a8c0@rafter> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Sender: owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 05:19:52PM +0200, Daniel Blankensteiner wrote: > Hi all > > I just want to ask when you think you will be ready? It depends for what. :-) > I know you can run FreeBSD on a ia64 now, but to take full advantage of the > new technology, the FreeBSD base system have to be rewritten? Or what ever > you do? Yes, you need to write the low-level support. As for taking advantage: we take as much advantage as is currently possible. We're not pushing the envelop here. It takes a while before you can focus on details. > btw, Are you also the guys who program the ia64 assembly, C and C++ > compiler? No. -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message