From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Dx1n3-00042O-Ve for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 08:10:38 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dx1fu-0001YD-8f for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 08:03:14 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dx1fY-0001RX-8f for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 08:02:57 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dx1fW-0001MN-PV for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 08:02:51 -0400 Received: from [145.74.66.11] (helo=mail-cn.han.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Dx1mI-000059-Ol for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 08:09:51 -0400 Received: from vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 559BE85BB; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 13:58:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-cn.han.nl ([145.74.66.11]) by vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 07494-05; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 13:07:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail1.han.nl (mail1.han.nl [145.74.103.11]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F694859C; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 13:58:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (mgerards.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by mail1.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A82ECC045; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 13:58:48 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Copies-To: metgerards@student.han.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <42E4B78A.5040701@iinet.net.au> From: Marco Gerards Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 13:58:48 +0200 In-Reply-To: <42E4B78A.5040701@iinet.net.au> (James Buchanan's message of "Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:57:30 +1000") Message-ID: <87ek9nnll3.fsf@student.han.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new (2.2.0) at vscan-cn.han.nl Cc: Jeff Bailey Subject: Re: Intel Itanium2 devel for GRUB2 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 12:10:34 -0000 James Buchanan 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