["Marc Lörner"]

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> Datum: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:18:14 -0700
> Von: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt at me.com>
> An: "Marc Lörner" <loerner at gmx.de>
> CC: freebsd-ia64 at freebsd.org
> Betreff: Re:

> 
> On Jul 6, 2010, at 5:15 AM, Marc Lörner wrote:
> 
> > Hello list, Marcel!
> > As I already told you my company has bought an SGI-atlix 450.
> > As this testsystem is now not used anymore by anyone in the foreseeable
> future, I got the admission to try FreeBSD on it.
> > 
> > So what can I do to help bringing/running FreeBSD on this machine?
> > What are the first steps to take, because I can vaguely remember that
> install won't work out of the box from the released CD-images?
> > 
> > @Marcel: Have you made some progress on FreeBSD, Numa and your Altix?
> 
> Yes, somewhat. The major blocker is a lack of interrupt support,
> because the Altix doesn't have SAPICs. But before I can work on
> interrupt support I need a driver that doesn't fail to allocate
> DMA memory. This may need support for the I/O MMU. If so, that
> I/O MMU support is the first blocker to resolve.
> 
> Other than that, FreeBSD boots with the changes (and kluges) I
> have on the altix branch.
> 
> If you want to see if and how well FreeBSD boots on the 450, you
> need to checkout svn+ssh://svn.freebsd.org/base/projects/altix,
> build a kernel using the ALTIX configuration and boot that under
> EFI. You also need to build a loader from that branch, because
> the standard loader won't work. Devices won't attach, but you
> should find all hardware and be asked for the root mount point.
> 

Thanks Marcel for describing the momentarily state of work done for 
supporting altix.
In the next few days I will give your code a try!

Regards,
Marc Loerner
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