HP rx8620 - ia64 packages.

[Émeric Maschino]

Hi,

I regularly try to install FreeBSD on my zx6000. Last time, back in
May, I was getting machine checks [1]. Despite the help of the ia64
FreeBSD list, I couldn't go further (last attempt in July [2]). So, I
can't tell that I'm an ia64 FreeBSD user right now ;-)

BTW, even if I can manage to install FreeBSD on my box, I'm one a the
few, even on the Linux side, to use it as a desktop system (since it's
a workstation, not a server) so I'm hitting various issues, e.g. about
3D graphics on the Linux side (although lspci rewrite, switch to KMS
and Gallium3D r300 helped a lot) vs no X server available at all on
the FreeBSD side. I know that resources are unfortunately scarce...

     Emeric

[1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ia64/2012-July/003323.html
[2] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ia64/2012-July/003323.html


2013/3/22 Kevin Day <kevin at your.org>:
>
> On Mar 22, 2013, at 4:01 PM, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Regarding the packages, I have a desire for
>> an official package built to be set up again.
>> But somebody will have to step up to do the job.
>> Mark Linimon (I don't know if you are familiar
>> with FreeBSD/ia64 or new, so you might know
>> this already) was instrumental in making it work,
>> but he recently stepped down from whatever
>> ports position he held. Not sure if the new
>> person is willing to help with ia64 portscluster.
>>
>> Last time, about 6-9 months ago, we managed to build >15k ports.
>>
>
> I'm currently building i386, amd64 and sparc64 packages for 9.1, 9.0 and 8.3, which we make publicly available. If I can get this beast running, i'll get ia64 packages going too. Right now just waiting for the appropriate power to be run.
>
>> I also keep a page on browsers on ia64:
>> http://seis.bris.ac.uk/~mexas/freebsd/ia64/browsers.html
>>
>> Regarding the users - I was told repeatedly that
>> I account for the majority of FreeBSD/ia64 user base.
>
> That's a shame - maybe this will change as more ia64 boxes enter the used market where they're in the budgets for users who don't need to use a supported OS.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -- Kevin
>
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