Hi! Kochi-san,


From: "Takayoshi Kochi" <takayoshi.kochi@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:19:21 +0900

> > I get hp zx6000 (Itanium2 1GHz x2).  I want to work NetBSD/ia64 on this
> > machine.  Please teach a present support status.

> The development has stalled for a long time :(
> I don't think it's compiling now.

Oooppssss... ;-<


> Once the cross toolchain works, I think the EFI loader works.
> But any of the platform related code (BIOS, ACPI, bus_*, interrupts
> etc.) are either
> not written yet or checked in. So I think it's long way to run the kernel
> on real machines.
> 
> The last status (one year ago) was that only basic pmap stuff and
> emulation console on SKI simulator were working.
> 
> For boot on a real machine, I suppose the shortest cut is to make a serial
> console driver (the  HP hardware has a MMIO-based serial interface, which
> can be discovered via ACPI but can be hardcoded the address).

Ooops *2  X-<

I am very busy...
Thanks,
--
kiyohara