From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 16 9:12:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 791371569B for ; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 09:12:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (haldjas.folklore.ee [172.17.2.1] (may be forged)) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.8.8/8.8.4) with SMTP id TAA01700; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 19:10:58 +0300 (EEST) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 19:10:58 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi To: Brett Glass Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IA64: Back on topic In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990716093234.047583c0@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Brett Glass wrote: > The digression about the i860 was interesting, but let's get back to the > topic at hand. So far, I've seen no movement toward development of a > FreeBSD port for the IA64, even though Intel has now announced that > hardware samples will begin to ship to vendors in Q3. Ports of Linux are We'll see if they really do. ia64 has kept slipping. Merced may well never see the light, with McKinley coming out instead. It used to be samples Q1, then smaples Q2, now it is samples Q3. How about smaples really Q4? > already underway. Will FreeBSD be left behind? > What can we do before there is any info on the Supervisor side of the things or before we even see a compiler that actuallt generates code for it? > --Brett Glass > Sander There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future - all these are just illusions. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message