From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 18 9:45: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF19E37B443 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 09:45:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f3IGiRG49494; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 09:44:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <15069.38332.759360.177827@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 09:43:48 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Andrew Gallatin Subject: Re: x86-64 Hammer and IA64 Itainium Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, Mike Silbersack Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 18-Apr-01 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. > > What's the timeframe that they're shooting for with this beast, anyway? The person you want to be asking is Peter Wemm, who has already looked at the feasibility of a port from the kernel side for x86-64. He estimates one week if we clean up the i386 pmap first so we can pull from it when doing the x86-64 (or ka64) stuff. Also, in case you aren't aware (this is not to you Drew, I know you know :)) FreeBSD already has an ia64 port underway in -current. ia64, x86-64, ppc, and a few others are on the radar scope of the FreeBSD developers. > Drew -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message