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This page tries to be the starting point for people trying to find - anything that can be done.
+ anything that can be done. The order of the items on this page are + not strictly an indication of priority, but it is a good indication. + There are in all likelyhood tasks that are not mentioned here, but + that should be done nonetheless. A typical example is the maintenance + of the ia64 web pages... unfortunately. -Look here - for the most up-to-date list of ports that fail to build for some reason - or another.
+With two releases as a tier 2 platform, it is time to work towards + becoming a tier 1 platform. This involves tasks as varied as: +
A complete list of things that need to be done is very likely not - going to happen. There's just too much. Below a list of the larger - or more important items.
+A very important task for the success of FreeBSD on ia64 is making + sure that users have something to run besides ls(1). Our huge ports + collection has been targeting ia32 for the most part, so it is not + surprising that there are a lot of ports that do not build or do not + work on ia64. Look + here + for the most up-to-date list of ports that fail to build for some + reason or another. Note that if there are ports depending on one or + more ports that fail, those are not built and are not counted. A good + way to help out here is to work on those ports that have a lot of + ports depending on it (see the "Aff." column in the table).
-There are plenty functions (especially assembly routines) that + have been written to provide the missing functionality without any + consideration for speed and/or robustness. Reviewing those functions + and replacing them if necessary is a good task that can be done + concurrently and independently from other activity and does not + necessarily require huge amounts of knowledge and/or experience.
+ +On top of the high-level things that do not work or do not exist, + there is also some rather involved rewriting to be done at the + foundation and can potentionally affect all other platforms as well. + This includes: +