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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