From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 17 14:28:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from virtual-voodoo.com (virtual-voodoo.com [204.120.165.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B912E37B84D for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 14:28:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from steve@virtual-voodoo.com) Received: (from steve@localhost) by virtual-voodoo.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA76641; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 17:28:04 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from steve) Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 17:28:04 -0500 From: Steve Ames To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 64bit OS? Message-ID: <20000217172804.A65123@virtual-voodoo.com> References: <200002172219.RAA22889@virtual-voodoo.com> <1272.950826376@zippy.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <1272.950826376@zippy.cdrom.com>; from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com on Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 02:26:16PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 02:26:16PM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Which leads to my potentially ignorant question: Where is FreeBSD > > w/regards to running on the Itanium (or other 64bit chips)? > > Waiting for somebody at Intel to give us either hardware or simulator > time. Without either of those things, "working on" Itanium support > is a pretty pointless exercise. A pretty tricky exercise also. Thanks for the quick response Jordan. -steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message