Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 21:31:16 -0700 From: "Jeremiah Gowdy" <jgowdy@home.com> To: "John Baldwin" <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Andrew Gallatin" <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Mike Silbersack" <silby@silby.com> Subject: Re: x86-64 Hammer and IA64 Itainium Message-ID: <003501c0c889$930f44a0$aa240018@cx443070b> References: <XFMail.010418094348.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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> > > 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. Sweet. > 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. Absolutely excellent. Who cares about the Itainium vs Hammer issue ? Let the industry sort it out as long as FreeBSD supports both :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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