Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 23:35:10 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com> Cc: Murray Stokely <murray@osd.bsdi.com>, freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Roadmap / What needs to be done? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010042332140.94692-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <39DA8230.86FB16AC@cup.hp.com>
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On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > Murray Stokely wrote: > > > > Does anyone have a roadmap of work that needs to be done on IA64? > > There is almost no mention of IA64 on the FreeBSD website and that > > needs to change. I've created a simple project page for the IA64 port > > but since this list isn't archived yet I can't get any useful > > information about what the current priorities are. > > > > http://people.FreeBSD.org/~murray/ia64.html > > I've been in contact with the ski simulator developers. In principle > they allow me to make a native port. According to Doug, the Linux > version doesn't seem to work that smoothly. Also, there doesn't seem to > be an Alpha port of ski. I'm planning to do that as well. Having a > simulator helps in cases when there's no hardware. > > I don't look too far ahead this time... I have managed to get around my speed problems with ski by telling it not to try to find source code for the program window. Now that I'm used to it, I'm finding it pretty useful. I was somewhat spoiled for the alpha port since I was using a simulator which supported gdb which was very nice. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message
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