From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 18 6:25:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA9DC37B423 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 06:25:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA17002; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 09:25:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.3/8.9.1) id f3IDPGP64009; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 09:25:16 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15069.38332.759360.177827@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 09:25:16 -0400 (EDT) To: Mike Silbersack Cc: Subject: Re: x86-64 Hammer and IA64 Itainium In-Reply-To: References: <001001c0c782$5683ad80$215778d8@cx443070b> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Silbersack writes: > > Once that's done, it'll probably be a matter to send a clawhammer > system and a large box of cheese and crackers to the guys who did the > freebsd alpha port. If the architecture is actually so similar to x86, > it should only take them a few weekends. :) As one of the FreeBSD/alpha porters, I must point out that I don't know diddly-squat about low-level x86isms. I've never even written a line of x86 assembly. What's the timeframe that they're shooting for with this beast, anyway? Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message