From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 7 23:35:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sumatra.americantv.com (sumatra.americantv.com [208.139.222.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F76B1526F for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 23:35:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jlemon@americantv.com) Received: from right.PCS (right.PCS [148.105.10.31]) by sumatra.americantv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA14216; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 01:35:08 -0500 (CDT) Received: from free.pcs (free.PCS [148.105.10.51]) by right.PCS (8.6.13/8.6.4) with ESMTP id BAA00781; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 01:35:07 -0500 Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by free.pcs (8.8.6/8.8.5) id BAA29674; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 01:35:06 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 01:35:06 -0500 (CDT) From: Jonathan Lemon Message-Id: <199907080635.BAA29674@free.pcs> To: unknown@riverstyx.net, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IA64 X-Newsgroups: local.mail.freebsd-chat In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Architecture and Operating System Fanatics Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In article you write: >On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, David Scheidt wrote: > >> > >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's relatively easy for serious developers to get the information >> > from Intel -- under NDA at first, and for publication by the time >> > anyone can lay hands on a real processor. >> >> Signing an NDA to work on source availabe system is silly, unless of course >> Intel will let you out of it when the make documentation available to >> the general public. I haven't looked into it, so I can't say anything more. > >Not to sound rude or anything, but don't you think permanently withholding >development information for their processor would be pretty damn stupid? ``Appendix H''. -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message