From owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 22 21:19:36 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4D01677 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 21:19:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kevin@your.org) Received: from mail.your.org (mail.your.org [IPv6:2001:4978:1:2::cc09:3717]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0492A4F for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 21:19:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.your.org (chi02.mail.your.org [204.9.55.23]) by mail.your.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33B43F06C2D; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 21:19:36 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=your.org; h=content-type :mime-version:subject:from:in-reply-to:date:cc :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to; s= selector1; bh=zHKGcPcSjpH5e5gB+pkdBmS8ABQ=; b=yl94ri5mUrFBaEHY6Q QoE9BfRZUkq2o/qmmFQCao4Nr8Nv0AKwZt2Nz71tG5ipJ/4OclOK5SC9Brh1J/hC PFPXhkUQRVhsNEhKcNHH5gYvv+bKPZryp0TvK/O0v0W74OEkop7Qs0GJoHwQ8ZAi yfkXrbTXtiyZkFyLToDmLPMeM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=your.org; h=content-type :mime-version:subject:from:in-reply-to:date:cc :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to; q=dns; s= selector1; b=FE3ffB9inZr6H2sDA2XH87G4vcVeED02aBiZnsJX3szW1YYION+ l+I81gdqqjoNOuGKvyNHre79tjXEvWnI45xiRw/grCNNbxgIDMsQOj7K2gmRtH1c f5kPllfWyHxPMWbdhwpf9LtYGKxBMS3F1aNwP56U6n5WpYS/xKCPl12I= Received: from vpn132.rw1.your.org (vpn132.rw1.your.org [204.9.51.132]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.your.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 13EF2F06C2C; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 21:19:36 +0000 (UTC) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.3 \(1503\)) Subject: Re: HP rx8620 - ia64 packages. From: Kevin Day In-Reply-To: <201303222101.r2ML10v7085020@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:19:35 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <201303222101.r2ML10v7085020@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> To: mexas@bristol.ac.uk X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1503) Cc: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the IA-64 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 21:19:36 -0000 On Mar 22, 2013, at 4:01 PM, Anton Shterenlikht = wrote: >=20 >=20 > Regarding the packages, I have a desire for > an official package built to be set up again. > But somebody will have to step up to do the job. > Mark Linimon (I don't know if you are familiar > with FreeBSD/ia64 or new, so you might know > this already) was instrumental in making it work, > but he recently stepped down from whatever > ports position he held. Not sure if the new > person is willing to help with ia64 portscluster. >=20 > Last time, about 6-9 months ago, we managed to build >15k ports. >=20 I'm currently building i386, amd64 and sparc64 packages for 9.1, 9.0 and = 8.3, which we make publicly available. If I can get this beast running, = i'll get ia64 packages going too. Right now just waiting for the = appropriate power to be run. > I also keep a page on browsers on ia64: > http://seis.bris.ac.uk/~mexas/freebsd/ia64/browsers.html >=20 > Regarding the users - I was told repeatedly that > I account for the majority of FreeBSD/ia64 user base. That's a shame - maybe this will change as more ia64 boxes enter the = used market where they're in the budgets for users who don't need to use = a supported OS. Thanks! -- Kevin