From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: m.delahaye@esiee.fr (Matthieu Delahaye) Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 10:07:46 +0000 Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Re: [Linux-ia64] Linux, Itanium and PA/RISC Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 11:19:08AM -0800, David Mosberger wrote: > >>>>> On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 12:10:37 +0000, Matthew Wilcox said: > > Matthew> On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 11:41:18AM +0100, Adriano Galano > Matthew> wrote: > >> Hi all: > > >> I read that IA-64 support PA-RISC instruction mapping. That's > >> mean that I can use Linux for PA/RISC > >> (http://www.parisc-linux.org/) in a Itanium 2 computer? > > Matthew> No. You certainly can't run a PA-RISC kernel on an IA64 > Matthew> box, just like you can't run an x86 kernel on an ia64 box. > > Ugh, that's not strictly true. You definitely can boot x86 linux and > windows 98 on Itanium. I believe the same is true for Itanium 2 if > you have Intel's firmware, though I have never tried that myself. ...And perhaps you don't forget to add support for the chipset in the x86/hppa kernel. Is the Intel's firmware freely distributed or it is internal only? Matthieu