From owner-freebsd-arch Thu May 18 1:41: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (adsl-63-202-177-47.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.177.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28A7637B956 for ; Thu, 18 May 2000 01:40:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA00652 for ; Thu, 18 May 2000 01:41:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200005180841.BAA00652@mass.cdrom.com> Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 01:41:56 -0700 From: Mike Smith Subject: Re: Itanium Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ------- Blind-Carbon-Copy X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Rasmus Skaarup Reply-to: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Itanium In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 18 May 2000 09:58:10 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 01:41:56 -0700 From: Mike Smith (This is not the list for this question, please do not follow up here) > RedHat has released a alpha distribution for the 64-bit Itanium > processor. > > http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2571379,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01 > > And SGI is on the wagon aswell. > > http://www.sgi.com/newsroom/press_releases/2000/may/linux-ia64.html Yes, and Pacific Hitech have had a release out for some time. They're all members of the Trillium project (www.linuxia64.org), which has been a closed cabal for some time now. > What is the plans for FreeBSD, will there be an Itanium distro? If so, is > there any time schedule? FreeBSD doesn't have "distros", so no, there will not be an "Itanium distro". There is, however, an effort underway to port FreeBSD to the IA-64 architecture/platform being sponsored by BSDi. This is somewhat complicated by the fact that hardware is difficult to come by, but we do have a degree of support from Intel. At this point in time, there isn't a public time schedule other than "as soon as possible consistent with the production of a solid port". We're still looking for team members to fill a number of roles in this effort, by the way. - -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com ------- End of Blind-Carbon-Copy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message