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

Matthieu Delahaye
2003-03-26T10:07:46Z

On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 11:19:08AM -0800, David Mosberger wrote:
> >>>>> On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 12:10:37 +0000, Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> 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