Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 22:25:48 +0000 From: "J. Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG, green@FreeBSD.ORG, sw@anthologeek.net, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/lang Makefile ports/lang/icc Makefile distinfo pkg-comment pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/lang/icc/files patch-include Message-ID: <20020328222548.GA24117@FreeBSD.ORG> In-Reply-To: <200203282221.g2SMLFsH000660@Magelan.Leidinger.net> References: <20020327153610.GB7219@FreeBSD.ORG> <200203282221.g2SMLFsH000660@Magelan.Leidinger.net>
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On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 11:21:15PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > On 27 Mär, J. Mallett wrote: > > > Read the article Intel did about porting Mach (and then Linux) to IA64 using > > icc initially on pre-silicon. They outline a lot of the things they had to > > http://developer.intel.com/technology/itj/q41999/articles/art_4.htm > > > do to make Linux build with icc, I seem to recall. In general it's the same > > stuff we all know anyway, but the point is they were able to do it, and I > > *THINK* they may have even included manhour figures, which could be useful if > > someone were to look into doing something similar for FreeBSD. > > Not that I've seen them, but I just did a quick read. Right, they mention it took their team 2 weeks to do a port, and that a good portion of that time was on GNUisms... So to me that says that THIS project could certainly get it done in a reasonable amount of time, despite the fact people don't work on it full-time (in general). /j. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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