From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 17 15:32:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.tue.nl (mailhost.tue.nl [131.155.2.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2860F37B84D for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 15:32:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcov@toad.stack.nl) Received: from hermes.tue.nl [131.155.2.46] by mailhost.tue.nl (8.9.3) for id AAA06185 (ESMTP); Fri, 18 Feb 2000 00:32:09 +0100 (MET) Received: from deathstar (n99.dial.tue.nl [131.155.209.98]) by hermes.tue.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8488E2E804 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 00:32:07 +0100 (CET) From: "Marco van de Voort" To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 00:30:07 +0100 Subject: Re: 64bit OS? References: Your message of "Thu, 17 Feb 2000 17:19:21 EST." <200002172219.RAA22889@virtual-voodoo.com> In-reply-to: <1272.950826376@zippy.cdrom.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12b) Message-Id: <20000217233207.8488E2E804@hermes.tue.nl> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. Just a thought: One could use the released 64-bit Itanium gcc, create a i386->itanium crosscompiler, and start preparing some stuff? Marco van de Voort (MarcoV@Stack.nl) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message