FreeBSD IA64 on Compaq DL590?

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> From: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm at toybox.placo.com>
> Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 23:52:28 -0800
> To: m <m at telerama.com>, <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Subject: RE: FreeBSD IA64 on Compaq DL590?
> 
> owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org wrote:
>> Has anyone successfully booted IA64 BSD 5.3 on a Compaq DL590 machine?
>> 
> 
> HP has Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 3.0 running on a DL560
> system here:
> 
> http://www.testdrive.hp.com
> 
> Contact them and ask for a FreeBSD test system on a DL590.
> 

Very cool.

Of course, their system doesn't have the ida(4) driver @ all.  I need to get
this running ASAP, too, so it looks like I'm a bit screwed.