Intel Itanium2 devel for GRUB2

Intel Itanium2 devel for GRUB2

[James Buchanan]

Hi list,

Like I said, I will have an Intel Itanium2 system arriving soon.  I 
didn't know this when I bid on eBay -- but it's capable of 2 Itanium2 
CPUs (mine has one CPU installed) and it can take 24GB RAM.  Wow.  (Mine 
has 2GB installed).  It can also take a 438GB of SCSI disk (mine has 2x 
36GB Ultra320 SCSI disks).

Hmm... going to have some fun with this ;-)

I've downloaded all the IA-64 manuals and EFI docs from Intel, and I'm 
studying the FreeBSD and Linux Itanium sources.  But I may need some 
help along the way if anyone here programs the IA-64.

Thanks,
James

Re: Intel Itanium2 devel for GRUB2

[Marco Gerards]

James Buchanan <jamesb.au@iinet.net.au> writes:

Hi James,

> Like I said, I will have an Intel Itanium2 system arriving soon.  I
> didn't know this when I bid on eBay -- but it's capable of 2 Itanium2
> CPUs (mine has one CPU installed) and it can take 24GB RAM.  Wow.
> (Mine has 2GB installed).  It can also take a 438GB of SCSI disk (mine
> has 2x 36GB Ultra320 SCSI disks).

Nice machine...  wow :)

> I've downloaded all the IA-64 manuals and EFI docs from Intel, and I'm
> studying the FreeBSD and Linux Itanium sources.  But I may need some
> help along the way if anyone here programs the IA-64.

Perhaps Jeff can help you (CC to Jeff).  I don't have any clue about
the IA64, but I do know a bit about GRUB 2 and porting it.  So do
other people on #grub on IRC and on this mailinglist.  So just hang
around on IRC and/or the list and ask the questions you have. :)

Thanks,
Marco

Re: Intel Itanium2 devel for GRUB2

[Marco Gerards]

James Buchanan <jamesb.au@iinet.net.au> writes:

> I've downloaded all the IA-64 manuals and EFI docs from Intel, and I'm
> studying the FreeBSD and Linux Itanium sources.  But I may need some
> help along the way if anyone here programs the IA-64.

It seems there is an EFI implementation available for the PC.  At the
moment I am working on XFS support for GRUB 2, but this just bothers
me ATM.  So I will have a look at EFI on the PC so I will have fun
again. :)

James, does that bother you if someone else will work on this as well?
In that case I will do something else of which I think it is fun.

If I get things working on the PC, it shouldn't be that hard to get
things working on the IA64 as well.

Thanks,
Marco