From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 18 7: 3:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from silby.com (adam042-060.resnet.wisc.edu [146.151.42.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69A7F37B423 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 07:03:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from silby@silby.com) Received: (qmail 20891 invoked by uid 1000); 18 Apr 2001 14:03:38 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 Apr 2001 14:03:38 -0000 Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 09:03:38 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: Subject: Re: x86-64 Hammer and IA64 Itainium In-Reply-To: <15069.38332.759360.177827@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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