Re: [parisc-linux] Re: [Linux-ia64] Linux, Itanium and PA/RISC

Christian Groessler
2003-03-26T17:20:10Z

Hi,

On 03/26/2003 09:25:35 AM MST n0ano wrote:
>
>Well, Itanium's can sort of run any X86 software.
>
>As David was alluding to there are two ways you can boot an Itanium
>box, either with an IA32 kernel (a current Pentium based OS) or an
>IA64 kernel.
>
>If you boot an IA32 kernel the CPU will behave as an exact Pentium
>processor and execute all Pentium code. The system will be slower
>than comparable Pentium processors but it should work exactly the
>same. (Notice that I say `should', I've never done this, there could
>be chipset issues, I don't know of anyone who has done this but it
>should work.)

Does the ia32 emulation go that far to also emulate 16bit operation,
iow, could one boot DOS?

regards,
chris