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<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/platforms/ia64/index.sgml,v 1.1 2003/01/19 23:48:18 marcel Exp $">
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<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD/ia64 Project">
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<!ENTITY email 'freebsd-ia64'>
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&header;
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<center>
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<h2>
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!! first public release:
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<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/announce.html">5.0</a> !!
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<form action="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/search.cgi" method="get">
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<center>Search the freebsd-ia64 mailing list archives:
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<h3><a name="toc">Table Of Contents</a></h3>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li>
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<li><a href="#status">Current status</a></li>
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<li><a href="todo.html">What Needs To Be Done</a></li>
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<li><a href="machines.html">Hardware List</a></li>
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<li><a href="refs.html">References</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h3><a name="intro">Introduction</a></h3>
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<p>The FreeBSD/ia64 project pages contain information about the FreeBSD
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port to Intel's IA-64 architecture; officially known as the Intel Itanium
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Processor Family (IPF). As with the port itself, these pages are still
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mostly a work in progress.
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</p>
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<h3><a name="status">Current status</a></h3>
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<p>The ia64 port is still considered a tier 2 platform. This boils down
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to not being fully supported by our security officer, release engineers
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and toolchain maintainers. In practice however the distinction between
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a tier 1 platform (which is fully supported) and a tier 2 platform is not
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as strict as it seems. In almost all aspects the ia64 port is a tier 1
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platform.<br>
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From a developer point of view there's an advantage to have the ia64
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port be a tier 2 platform for a while longer. We still have a couple
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of ABI breaking changes in the pipeline and having to maintain backward
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compatibility this early in a ports life is less than ideal.</p>
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