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

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 02:39:38PM +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 02:33:31PM +0000, Robert Millan wrote:
> > The CPU ships with ia32 emulation IIRC.
> 
> That's AMD's 64bit thing. Bdale has Intel Itaniums, which is different
> (and is a pure 64bit processor).

amd64 can run ia32 code "natively", but I recall that ia64 has some sort of
emulation layer for ia32. I don't know how it works or how to activate it,
although it's certainly not working in merulo.d.o.

> I haven't asked the sindominio assembly yet, but I guess I need to know
> how much bandwidth you guys think this is going to take. We don't want
> to drown a nice project like Sindominio or madrid.indymedia.org :)

A lot. Untill we have a section in the Debian archive, we'll put everything
there, and after that it will serve for packages that need hacks and so
(such as like the old APT dir in alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd).

Additionaly, since the APT archive in alpha.gnu.org is dead (and won't be
recovered), we could put i386-gnu packages there, too.

Perhaps it's better to use the UAB network. That way if we are to drown
something they have plenty of calerons to back it up ;).

Another alternative if the UPC, but this takes much more bureoucracy work,
methinks.

-- 
Robert Millan

"[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the
thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he
gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work."

 -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)