From owner-cvs-all Thu Mar 28 14:23:27 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from finntroll.newgold.net (Durham-ar1-4-64-252-019.dsl.genuity.net [4.64.252.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6A89037B41A for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 14:23:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 17344 invoked by uid 1001); 28 Mar 2002 22:25:49 -0000 Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 22:25:48 +0000 From: "J. Mallett" To: Alexander Leidinger Cc: jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG, green@FreeBSD.ORG, sw@anthologeek.net, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/lang Makefile ports/lang/icc Makefile distinfo pkg-comment pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/lang/icc/files patch-include Message-ID: <20020328222548.GA24117@FreeBSD.ORG> References: <20020327153610.GB7219@FreeBSD.ORG> <200203282221.g2SMLFsH000660@Magelan.Leidinger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200203282221.g2SMLFsH000660@Magelan.Leidinger.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Organisation: FreeBSD Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 11:21:15PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > On 27 Mär, J. Mallett wrote: > > > Read the article Intel did about porting Mach (and then Linux) to IA64 using > > icc initially on pre-silicon. They outline a lot of the things they had to > > http://developer.intel.com/technology/itj/q41999/articles/art_4.htm > > > do to make Linux build with icc, I seem to recall. In general it's the same > > stuff we all know anyway, but the point is they were able to do it, and I > > *THINK* they may have even included manhour figures, which could be useful if > > someone were to look into doing something similar for FreeBSD. > > Not that I've seen them, but I just did a quick read. Right, they mention it took their team 2 weeks to do a port, and that a good portion of that time was on GNUisms... So to me that says that THIS project could certainly get it done in a reasonable amount of time, despite the fact people don't work on it full-time (in general). /j. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message