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Date:      Sat, 9 Jan 2010 12:49:50 +0100
From:      Rink Springer <rink@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com>
Cc:        Joshua Scoggins <theoretically.x64@gmail.com>, freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Question about sio
Message-ID:  <20100109114950.GB83213@rink.nu>
In-Reply-To: <5AE1714E-54AC-40D9-B213-382ECA04E6B6@mac.com>
References:  <4B47D286.2000403@gmail.com> <5AE1714E-54AC-40D9-B213-382ECA04E6B6@mac.com>

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Hi,

On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 06:38:45PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> > I was reading up on what was still needed to be done to get FreeBSD working on IA64 and it said that syscons and sio were the last vestiges needed to be ported fully to ia64.
> 
> Can you provide a reference?
> 
> syscons(4) is definitely something we still need. That or an alternative
> implementation.

Fwiw, I have a working syscons(4) for ia64. It still doesn't implement
everything (i.e. modeswitching) but it's very usuable. Will try to
provide patches later today.

Regards,

-- 
Rink P.W. Springer                                - http://rink.nu
"Beauty often seduces us on the road to truth."
- Dr. Wilson



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