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On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 02:35:03PM -0600, Daniel Robbins wrote: |
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> Hi Everyone, |
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> HP has generously given us a very nice dual-CPU Itanium 2 system with |
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> 10GB of RAM on extended loan to allow us to port Gentoo Linux to it. I |
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> currently have it set up on my LAN and can give out access to |
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> experienced Gentoo developers and possibly some non-developers who might |
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> have already begun work on porting Gentoo to IA64. |
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Steven Plite (splite-gentoo@××××××××××××××××.edu) has done quite a bit |
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of work in this area - he's currently in the new dev pipeline. |
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> There are several people on the Gentoo dev team who are very motivated |
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> to get our IA64 rock-solid as soon as we possibly can, so I'd expect our |
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> progress on IA64 to move along very very quickly. If you have the time |
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> and experience to help in some capacity, please email Seemant Kulleen at |
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> seemant@g.o and cc me (drobbins@g.o) and tell us how you |
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> can help. |
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> The machine is currently running Debian. Porting plan is: |
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> 1) port Portage to Debian/IA64 |
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> 2) use Portage to build an IA64 stage1 in a chroot |
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> 3) use Portage to build an IA64 stage3 in a chroot |
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> 4) get it to boot |
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> 5) convert system over to native Gentoo operation |
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> 6) expand support for IA64 throughout the Portage tree |
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> 7) release |
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> Best Regards, |
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> Daniel |
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Steven Plite mailed me today and said he'd put a working stage1 up on a |
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FTP tonight - hopefully he can drop us a mail about it soon. |
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