Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 09:43:48 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> Subject: Re: x86-64 Hammer and IA64 Itainium Message-ID: <XFMail.010418094348.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <15069.38332.759360.177827@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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On 18-Apr-01 Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Mike Silbersack writes: > > > > Once that's done, it'll probably be a matter to send a clawhammer > > system and a large box of cheese and crackers to the guys who did the > > freebsd alpha port. If the architecture is actually so similar to x86, > > it should only take them a few weekends. :) > > As one of the FreeBSD/alpha porters, I must point out that I don't > know diddly-squat about low-level x86isms. I've never even written a > line of x86 assembly. > > What's the timeframe that they're shooting for with this beast, anyway? The person you want to be asking is Peter Wemm, who has already looked at the feasibility of a port from the kernel side for x86-64. He estimates one week if we clean up the i386 pmap first so we can pull from it when doing the x86-64 (or ka64) stuff. Also, in case you aren't aware (this is not to you Drew, I know you know :)) FreeBSD already has an ia64 port underway in -current. ia64, x86-64, ppc, and a few others are on the radar scope of the FreeBSD developers. > Drew -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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