From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 29 16:10:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from barrelshifter.net (pool-162-83-150-43.ny5030.east.verizon.net [162.83.150.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D25A437B401 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 16:10:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from maillists@barrelshifter.net) Received: (qmail 97565 invoked by uid 2000); 29 Aug 2001 23:10:03 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 29 Aug 2001 23:10:03 -0000 Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 19:10:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Vince's mailing list To: Kris Kennaway Cc: m p , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IA64 FreeBSD port In-Reply-To: <20010829031708.C68729@xor.obsecurity.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: > 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 That page is a bit out of date..things have progressed somewhat, 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 :) > > > > 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? > There appears to have been some problem with the freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG mail list. My original question that was posted on the 24th, appeared today, the 29th - things appear to be working just fine now. I am on the IA64 mailing list - will post a question over there. Thanks for the info, Vince To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message