[Glibc-bsd-devel] ia64 donation for GNU/KFreeBSD

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 05:44:06AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> [ Jordi, Robert's last mail was supposed to be CCed to you ]

oops. forgot it.

> > I believe we should run i386-kfreebsd-gnu on that box and use jails for
> > ia64 porting efforts as Nathan suggested.
> 
> Hmmm I think Nathan was talking about using a native FreeBSD and a
> jailed ia64-kfreebsd-gnu on top.

Urg.. I have no experience with FreeBSD or interest to learn.

> ia64 cannot run ia32 code that I know.

The CPU ships with ia32 emulation IIRC.

> > The problem is that starting an ia64 port takes a lot of work. After
> > writing the ia64-kfreebsd Glibc headers we get to bootstrap Debian,
> > which is almost trivial but takes a really big lot of time (I enjoy
> > playing human buildd myself, but after bootstrapping Debian twice it
> > gets pretty scary ;)).
> 
> Sure, but we can work together on this to speed things.

As for the headers I don't know, but the Debian bootstrap can't be easily
done in parallel work (every little task is dependant on the previous one).

> I will have, at uab.es but we can plug only one machine, to put another
> I would have to ask first.

Uhm.. IP Masq? ;)

> > and Jordi (CCed) likewise but for SinDominio's network.
> 
> [ Hmmm, Bcc? I'll CC hime this time ;> ]
> 
> I recall Jordi saying the data-center was in Barcelona ? Would be easy
> for Robert an me to reach.

Nice..

-- 
Robert Millan

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