From: Christian Groessler <cpg@aladdin.de>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Re: [Linux-ia64] Linux, Itanium and PA/RISC
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 17:20:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590723705324@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590723705314@msgid-missing>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-26 17:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-26 10:07 [parisc-linux] Re: [Linux-ia64] Linux, Itanium and PA/RISC Matthieu Delahaye
2003-03-26 11:51 ` Markus Schaber
2003-03-26 12:09 ` Matthieu Delahaye
2003-03-26 12:32 ` Markus Schaber
2003-03-26 16:25 ` n0ano
2003-03-26 16:51 ` Grant Grundler
2003-03-26 17:20 ` Christian Groessler [this message]
2003-03-26 17:56 ` n0ano
2003-03-26 17:59 ` Adriano Galano
2003-03-26 18:10 ` Matthieu Delahaye
2003-03-26 18:14 ` Markus Schaber
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