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The new home of the ia64 project. Given that 5.0-RELEASE is announced

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" [
<!ENTITY base CDATA "../..">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD$">
<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD/ia64 Project">
<!ENTITY email 'freebsd-ia64'>
<!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "../../includes.sgml"> %includes;
]>
<html>
&header;
<hr>
<form action="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/search.cgi" method="get">
<center>Search the freebsd-ia64 mailing list archives:
<input type="text" name="words" size="50">
<input type="hidden" name="max" value="25">
<input type="hidden" name="source" value="freebsd-ia64">
<input type="submit" value="Go">
</center>
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<hr>
<h3><a name="toc">Table Of Contents</a></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li>
<li><a href="#status">Current status</a></li>
<li><a href="todo.html">What Needs To Be Done</a></li>
<li><a href="machines.html">Hardware List</a></li>
<li><a href="refs.html">References</a></li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="intro">Introduction</a></h3>
<p>The FreeBSD/ia64 project pages contain information about the FreeBSD
port to Intel's IA-64 architecture; officially known as the Intel Itanium
Processor Family (IPF). As with the port itself, these pages are still
mostly a work in progress.
</p>
<h3><a name="status">Current status</a></h3>
<p>The ia64 port is still considered a tier 2 platform. This boils down
to not being fully supported by our security officer, release engineers
and toolchain maintainers. In practice however the distinction between
a tier 1 platform (which is fully supported) and a tier 2 platform is not
as strict as it seems. In almost all aspects the ia64 port is a tier 1
platform.<br>
From a developer point of view there's an advantage to have the ia64
port be a tier 2 platform for a while longer. We still have a couple
of ABI breaking changes in the pipeline and having to maintain backward
compatibility this early in a ports life is less than ideal.</p>
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