> > > 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.
Sweet.
> 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.
Absolutely excellent. Who cares about the Itainium vs Hammer issue ? Let
the industry sort it out as long as FreeBSD supports both :)
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