This page contains information about porting FreeBSD to Intel's -upcoming IA-64 architecture.
- -5-Oct-2001 Doug -Rabson reports that he has reached single user mode on real -hardware with a root filesystem mounted over NFS.
5-Nov-2000 Marcel -Moolenaar has written a web page describing the Simulator System Calls.
4-Oct-2000 Doug -Rabson has committed code to get FreeBSD as far as start_init() -before it dies in the simulator.
30-Sep-2000 Doug -Rabson has made a series of commits to -current with early IA64 -support. The kernel will now reach the mountroot prompt. Please -follow the mailing list for more information.
A lot of work needs to be done on the Cygnus IA-64 toolchain. At the -moment it looks like the various Linux camps doing IA-64 development -have splintered off without merging their respective changes back into -Cygnus' tree. Anyone working on toolchain issues should coordinate -with David Obrien.
- -HP's Linux IA-64 -simulator is currently less than ideal for FreeBSD development. -Marcel Moolenaar is currently -working on some of these issues.
- -This page contains information about the FreeBSD port to Intel's IA-64 + architecture; officially known as Itanium Processor Family (IPF). As with + the port itself, this page is still work in progress. Please send any + comments and suggestions to Marcel + . For discussions and everything else related to IA-64, send mail to + freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.org. +
+ +The follow people have been working either in the spotlights or behind + the scenes to get the FreeBSD port off the ground:
+ +2-Jun-2002 Marcel, + in a courageous attempt (*cough*), committed the first of a hopefully + regular series of updates to bring the project page up to date. Stay + tuned... +
28-May-2002 Marcel + committed GEOM support for GUID Partition Tables (GPT). A GPT tool is + still under development, but booting from a GPT disklabel partition is + working.
10-May-2002 David + O'Brien switched the in-tree compiler to GCC 3.1. Due to his efforts + we are now capable of self-hosting. +
25-Apr-2002 Marcel + committed elementary support for loading kernel modules.
10-Apr-2002 Doug + committed the rudimentary support for running i386 binaries in ia32 + mode. Development continues on the Perforce branch.
...more to come here...
5-Oct-2001 Doug reports + that he has reached single user mode on real hardware with a root + filesystem mounted over NFS.
5-Nov-2000 Marcel + has written a web page describing the Simulator System Calls + .
4-Oct-2000 Doug has + committed code to get FreeBSD as far as start_init() before it dies in + the simulator.
30-Sep-2000 Doug has + made a series of commits to -current with early IA-64 support. The + kernel will now reach the mountroot prompt. Please follow the mailing + list for more information.
Stay tuned...
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