Re: [gentoo-dev] Beginning of official Gentoo Itanium 2 porting effort

[Jon Portnoy <avenj@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 02:35:03PM -0600, Daniel Robbins wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> HP has generously given us a very nice dual-CPU Itanium 2 system with
> 10GB of RAM on extended loan to allow us to port Gentoo Linux to it. I
> currently have it set up on my LAN and can give out access to
> experienced Gentoo developers and possibly some non-developers who might
> have already begun work on porting Gentoo to IA64.

Steven Plite (splite-gentoo@sigint.cs.purdue.edu) has done quite a bit 
of work in this area - he's currently in the new dev pipeline.

> 
> There are several people on the Gentoo dev team who are very motivated
> to get our IA64 rock-solid as soon as we possibly can, so I'd expect our
> progress on IA64 to move along very very quickly. If you have the time
> and experience to help in some capacity, please email Seemant Kulleen at
> seemant@gentoo.org and cc me (drobbins@gentoo.org) and tell us how you
> can help.
> 
> The machine is currently running Debian. Porting plan is:
> 
> 1) port Portage to Debian/IA64
> 2) use Portage to build an IA64 stage1 in a chroot
> 3) use Portage to build an IA64 stage3 in a chroot
> 4) get it to boot
> 5) convert system over to native Gentoo operation
> 6) expand support for IA64 throughout the Portage tree
> 7) release
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Daniel

Steven Plite mailed me today and said he'd put a working stage1 up on a 
FTP tonight - hopefully he can drop us a mail about it soon.

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Jon Portnoy
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