Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 09:03:38 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: x86-64 Hammer and IA64 Itainium Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0104180857440.20879-100000@achilles.silby.com> In-Reply-To: <15069.38332.759360.177827@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > 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. Hm, no cheese or crackers for you then. The reason I figured alpha experience would help is because I suspect that the important part of the porting would be the 32 -> 64 bit conversion; everything else _should_ be similar enough that it would be straightforward to convert for someone familiar with the lowlevel innards. (If the end product works how they have personified it, at least.) I guess getting dual 64/32 bit mode could be tricky, though. > What's the timeframe that they're shooting for with this beast, anyway? > > Drew The first x86-64 chips (the clawhammer series) are supposed to ship in the first half of 2002. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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