From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 7 10:19: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pop3-3.enteract.com (pop3-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D9CA914CDE for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:19:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: (qmail 39518 invoked from network); 7 Jul 1999 17:18:59 -0000 Received: from shell-2.enteract.com (dscheidt@207.229.143.41) by pop3-3.enteract.com with SMTP; 7 Jul 1999 17:18:59 -0000 Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 12:18:59 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: Yann Ramin Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IA64 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Yann Ramin wrote: > > This probaly should go to FreeBSD-questions, but here we go anyway: > > Will FreeBSD offer any support for the new upcoming IA-64 architecture > (Merced) from Intel? From what I hear, Linux already is working on their > port. It would be a shame that Linux comes up with a kernel for a > server-class CPU and we are left in the dust with our server-class OS that > runs on cheap processors. The documentation HP and Intel released last month didn't include documentation about supervisor mode operation. Unless they have since, it would be difficult to do any real work at a kernel port. It is also far from obvious that IA64 will fly. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message