Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 12:00:13 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Jeremiah Gowdy <jeremiah@sherline.com> Cc: freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: Need FreeBSD IA-64 status Message-ID: <XFMail.010921120013.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <00a201c142b2$c5658060$03e2cbd8@server>
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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 <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- 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
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