From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 19 8: 3:24 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 1A26537B422 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 08:03:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jgowdy@home.com) Received: (qmail 42407 invoked from network); 19 Apr 2001 15:03:18 -0000 Received: from sherline.cts.com (HELO server2) (204.216.163.132) by dualcpus.com with SMTP; 19 Apr 2001 15:03:18 -0000 Message-ID: <000601c0c8e1$e229f050$015778d8@sherline.net> From: "Jeremiah Gowdy" To: "Mike Silbersack" Cc: , References: Subject: Re: x86-64 Hammer and IA64 Itainium Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 09:04:45 -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 > I think a port to x86-64 is an excellent idea, but I also think that > you're worrying about it too far in advance. As you say, the x86-64 > project is working on getting gcc ported, which is important chunk of > work. As such, it's probably best to not worry about a FreeBSD port > until after they're done and have linux up and running on the processors. Probably true. I'm just trying to feel out who else is interested. > 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. :) > > (Alternative options include Matt Dillon splurge-buying a clawhammer > system at CompUSA and doing the port himself... the likelihood of such a > plan seems to hinge on how much free time he has, though. Maybe send him > cheese, crackers, and a CompUSA ad to help the process along.) I will prepare large shipments of cheese and crackers immediately. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message