From owner-freebsd-ia64 Fri Sep 21 12: 0:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wrs.com (unknown-1-11.windriver.com [147.11.1.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F76437B407 for ; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 12:00:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx ([147.11.46.201]) by mail.wrs.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA12165; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 12:00:25 -0700 (PDT) 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: <00a201c142b2$c5658060$03e2cbd8@server> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 12:00:13 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Jeremiah Gowdy Subject: RE: Need FreeBSD IA-64 status Cc: freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 21-Sep-01 Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: > I'm doing a presentation at the ToorCon Security Expo very soon here on > x86-64 and IA-64. I need to know the status of the two ports, and any > additional information on your experiences with the GCC ports. Any and all > information you could provide on anything related to these two > architectures, would be greatly appreciated. I tried collecting this > information about two months ago, but then I realized how much would, and > did, change in that time. I know the FreeBSD port is not anywhere near > done, but I would like to know where it is, if anywhere. The x86-64 port isn't very far along, though FreeBSD/i386 should run on the hardware, it just won't take full advantage of it. I've heard a rumor that we can now load a very simple kernel and that can do very simple I/O over the serial console on IA-64 hardware, which hopefully means we are close to single user on IA64 hardware. However, you will want to get confirmation on that.. -- 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-ia64" in the body of the message