Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 16:39:48 -0800 From: "Sam Leffler" <sam@errno.com> To: "Marco van de Voort" <marcov@stack.nl>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 64bit OS? Message-ID: <0d9e01bf79a8$a957e680$0132a8c0@MELANGE> References: Your message of "Thu, 17 Feb 2000 17:19:21 EST." <200002172219.RAA22889@virtual-voodoo.com> <20000217233207.8488E2E804@hermes.tue.nl>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Marco van de Voort" <marcov@stack.nl> To: <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 3:30 PM Subject: Re: 64bit OS? > > > 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) > <http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/xtdlib.htm>; > The difficult bits rarely have anything to do with compilers and such (especially given that most of the code has been through a 64-bit port to the alpha). The system-mode pieces of IA-64/Merced were not public until recently; I noticed the full document set just became available on the intel web site this week. There's also the Linux port that was posted to the web in the past week or two; that should show what's needed for a FreeBSD port. Of course, as was mentioned before, without hardware or a simulator it's pretty pointless to put much effort into something like this. Sam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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