Day 3: Conferences: Linux/ia64



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IA-64 was jointly developped by Intel and HP and is target to ship around mid 2000. David Mosberger from HP did the presentation (and you can see the slides in the middle of the picture library)

Then, Stéphane Eranian gave a demo of the port of the linux kernel HP did.

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While running inside the IA-64 emulator, it gave a whooping 0.42 bogomips and took a few minutes go to through a shortened boot cycle on the demo laptop they had (it's obviously a bit faster on their development servers).

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Libc and libm still need to be debugged a bit so everything can't be recompiled yet, but they had a basic system running with their own small shell. It think it must be a bit painful for them to develop under that emulator since just typing ls -l shows a couple of lines of output per second. Most of the work is therefore done with cross-compilers.
For now, it is painfully slow because of the emulator, but they expect to get a real system in the near future now. I have to admit that the result is already pretty impressive



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