From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 18 21:28:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dualcpus.com (dualcpus.com [65.160.20.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5D28137B42C for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 21:28:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jgowdy@home.com) Received: (qmail 39670 invoked from network); 19 Apr 2001 04:28:16 -0000 Received: from cx443070-b.vista1.sdca.home.com (HELO cx443070b) (24.0.36.170) by dualcpus.com with SMTP; 19 Apr 2001 04:28:16 -0000 Message-ID: <003501c0c889$930f44a0$aa240018@cx443070b> From: "Jeremiah Gowdy" To: "John Baldwin" , "Andrew Gallatin" Cc: , "Mike Silbersack" References: Subject: Re: x86-64 Hammer and IA64 Itainium Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 21:31:16 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > 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