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First of a series of commits to update the FreeBSD/ia64 project page:

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o  Added "Credits" section,
o  Added newsworthy events to the "Latest News" section. More to
   come here,
o  Removed all the links, because most were broken anyway. More to
   come here as well,
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<p>This page contains information about porting FreeBSD to Intel's
upcoming IA-64 architecture.</p>
<h2><a name="intro">Introduction</a></h2>
<h3>Latest News</h3>
<ul>
<li><p><b>5-Oct-2001</b> <a href="mailto:dfr@FreeBSD.org">Doug
Rabson</a> reports that he has reached single user mode on real
hardware with a root filesystem mounted over NFS.</p></li>
<li><p><b>5-Nov-2000</b> <a href="mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org">Marcel
Moolenaar</a> has written a web page describing the <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/~marcel/ssc.html">Simulator System Calls</a>.</p></li>
<li><p><b>4-Oct-2000</b> <a href="mailto:dfr@FreeBSD.org">Doug
Rabson</a> has committed code to get FreeBSD as far as start_init()
before it dies in the simulator.</p></li>
<li><p><b>30-Sep-2000</b> <a href="mailto:dfr@FreeBSD.org">Doug
Rabson</a> 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.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>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 <a href="mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org">Marcel
</a>. For discussions and everything else related to IA-64, send mail to
<a href="mailto:freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.org">freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.org</a>.
</p>
<h3>What needs to be done</h3>
<p>A lot of work needs to be done on the <a
href="http://www.cygnus.com/ia64">Cygnus IA-64 toolchain</a>. 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 <a href="mailto:obrien@FreeBSD.org">David Obrien</a>.</p>
<h2><a name="toc">Table Of Contents</a></h2>
<p><a href="http://software.hp.com/ia64linux">HP's Linux IA-64
simulator</a> is currently less than ideal for FreeBSD development.
<a href="mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org">Marcel Moolenaar</a> is currently
working on some of these issues.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="#who">Credits</a></li>
<li><a href="#news">Latest News</a></li>
<li><a href="#hw">Hardware List</a></li>
<li><a href="#todo">What Needs To Be Done</a></li>
<li><a href="#links">Pointers Of Interest</a></li>
</ul>
<H3>FreeBSD/ia64 Specific Links</H3>
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="mailto:freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.org">FreeBSD/ia64 mailing list</A></LI>
</UL>
<h2><a name="who">Credits</a></h2>
<H3>Other Links of Interest</H3>
<H4>IA-64 Documentation</H4>
<UL>
<li><a href="http://developer.intel.com/design/ia-64/devinfo.htm">
Intel IA-64 Architecture Reference Manuals</a></li>
<li><a href="http://developer.intel.com/software/idap/platform/server/IA64.htm">
Intel IA-64 presentations and whitepapers</a></li>
</UL>
<p>The follow people have been working either in the spotlights or behind
the scenes to get the FreeBSD port off the ground:</p>
<H4>Software Tools</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.cygnus.com/ia64">Cygnus GNU IA-64
Toolchain</a></li>
<li><a href="http://software.hp.com/ia64linux">HP Linux IA-64 Simulator
and Tools</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="mailto:dfr@FreeBSD.org">Doug Rabson</a></li>
<li><a href="mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org">Marcel Moolenaar</a></li>
<li><a href="mailto:peter@FreeBSD.org">Peter Wemm</a></li>
<li><a href="mailto:ps@FreeBSD.org">Paul Saab</a></li>
</ul>
<H4>Related Projects</H4>
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.linuxia64.com">Linux/IA64</A></LI>
</UL>
<h2><a name="news">Latest News</a></h2>
&footer;
</body>
<ul>
<li><p><b>2-Jun-2002</b> <a href="mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org">Marcel</a>,
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...
</p></li>
<li><p><b>28-May-2002</b> <a href="mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org">Marcel</a>
committed GEOM support for GUID Partition Tables (GPT). A GPT tool is
still under development, but booting from a GPT disklabel partition is
working.</p></li>
<li><p><b>10-May-2002</b> <a href="mailto:obrien@FreeBSD.org">David
O'Brien</a> switched the in-tree compiler to GCC 3.1. Due to his efforts
we are now capable of self-hosting.
<li><p><b>25-Apr-2002</b> <a href="mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org">Marcel</a>
committed elementary support for loading kernel modules.</p></li>
<li><p><b>10-Apr-2002</b> <a href="mailto:dfr@FreeBSD.org">Doug</a>
committed the rudimentary support for running i386 binaries in ia32
mode. Development continues on the Perforce branch.</p></li>
<li><p>...more to come here...</p></li>
<li><p><b>5-Oct-2001</b> <a href="mailto:dfr@FreeBSD.org">Doug</a> reports
that he has reached single user mode on real hardware with a root
filesystem mounted over NFS.</p></li>
<li><p><b>5-Nov-2000</b> <a href="mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org">Marcel</a>
has written a web page describing the <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/~marcel/ssc.html">Simulator System Calls
</a>.</p></li>
<li><p><b>4-Oct-2000</b> <a href="mailto:dfr@FreeBSD.org">Doug</a> has
committed code to get FreeBSD as far as start_init() before it dies in
the simulator.</p></li>
<li><p><b>30-Sep-2000</b> <a href="mailto:dfr@FreeBSD.org">Doug</a> 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.</p></li>
</ul>
<h2><a name="hw">Hardware List</a></h2>
<p>Stay tuned...</p>
<h2><a name="todo">What Needs To Be Done</a></h2>
<p>Stay tuned...</p>
<h2><a name="links">Pointer Of Interest</a></h2>
<p>Stay tuned...</p>
&footer;
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