Re: Anyone running ia64?

["Cherry G. Mathew" <cherry.g.mathew%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 28 December 2012 14:59, Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 06:00:40PM +0900, KIYOHARA Takashi wrote:
>> I have a ia64 machine(zx6000) at office.
>> I will try boot my ia64 too at after several days.
>
> Don't bother - I have collected all misisng parts now and was able to run
> a "mknative", so both binutils and gcc should be fine in -current (a "build.sh
> tools" works fine again).
>
> I will look at bootloaders next, it seems only skiload is installed so far,
> but I need a native EFI one (which seems to be mostly there in the sources).
>

It should work (with caveats) if it compiles.... I've tested it on
real ia64 hardware, although many years ago.

-- 
~Cherry