From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 17 14:34:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mycenae.ilion.eu.org (mycenae.ilion.eu.org [203.35.206.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7D3037B85B for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 14:34:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from patrykz@ilion.eu.org) Received: from mycenae.ilion.eu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mycenae.ilion.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA22191; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 09:34:30 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from patrykz@mycenae.ilion.eu.org) Message-Id: <200002172234.JAA22191@mycenae.ilion.eu.org> To: Steve Ames Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 64bit OS? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 17 Feb 2000 17:19:21 CDT." <200002172219.RAA22889@virtual-voodoo.com> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 09:34:29 +1100 From: Patryk Zadarnowski Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Just read this article: > > http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2440002,00.html > > Which leads to my potentially ignorant question: Where is FreeBSD > w/regards to running on the Itanium (or other 64bit chips)? Considering the fact that Intel released the IA-64 OS info only on the 15th, and, to my knowledge, haven't signed any NDA's with anyone from the FreeBSD team, I'd assume that we're precisely nowhere. ;) Having said that, I'll be getting Itanium hardware fairly soon after it's avaliable outside of Intel, and would be ultra-happy to work on an IA-64 FreeBSD when that happens. In the meantime, the only alternative would be to convince Intel to give someone their IA-64 SimOS, but there's an extermely slim chance of that happening (from talking to someone on the IA-64 team.) Pat. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message