From owner-freebsd-arch Thu May 18 1:46:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [207.154.226.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6659E37B956 for ; Thu, 18 May 2000 01:46:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paul@elvis.mu.org) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 064A72B209; Thu, 18 May 2000 03:46:19 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 01:46:19 -0700 From: Paul Saab To: Rasmus Skaarup Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Itanium Message-ID: <20000518014619.A58363@elvis.mu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from rasmus@gal.dk on Thu, May 18, 2000 at 09:58:10AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rasmus Skaarup (rasmus@gal.dk) wrote: > > 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 > > What is the plans for FreeBSD, will there be an Itanium distro? If so, is > there any time schedule? Work is underway. The people involved are only a month into it, and I dont think it will be done any time soon. The hope is to have support for it when Intel launches. -- Paul Saab Technical Yahoo paul@mu.org - ps@yahoo-inc.com - ps@freebsd.org Do You .. uhh .. Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message