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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.