From owner-freebsd-sparc Wed Oct 25 11:34:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C99937B479 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 11:34:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (ether.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.196]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e9PIY3f07605; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 11:34:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) 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: <200010251627.e9PGRhX06054@bg-tc-ppp808.monmouth.com> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 11:34:44 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: bpechter@shell.monmouth.com Subject: Re: Sparc port going 64 bit Cc: sparc@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 25-Oct-00 Bill Pechter wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 08:40:02AM -0400, Bill Pechter wrote: > >> > FreeBSD is the best Unix for i386... but we've not shown any real moves to >> > the multiplatform area. >> >> Uh... the Alpha? The IA-64? The Mac-PowerPC? >> >> -- >> -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) >> > Not to disagree, but the Alpha is it at this time. Period. > > Anyone have FreeBSD running on an IA-64 at this time in real production? > Does intel use it in production yet? Bet they're not yet. Does a production IA-64 exist yet? No. As far as porting goes, getting a platform to boot into single user mode and do an 'ls' on a memory disk is quite an achievement. Other OS's have ports that don't get that far. > Hell, the chip's not even available to us everyday folks. > > as far as PowerPC -- > Anyone have it running on a PowerPC box at this time in production? Not yet, no. They do have the loader ported and running though on a G3 or G4 (not sure which one Benno is using). -- 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-sparc" in the body of the message