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From: Craig, R. <roc...@hp...> - 2007-03-01 19:44:57
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Greetings, I've been over the website docs and mailing list archives=20 (including the survey) and come away with two themes: 1. Porting valgrind (in particular, memcheck) would be very hard 2. It's only a 5% interest/usage case so we don't care Coming from the HP Integrity Server part of the cosmos, I have more than a 5% interest :-) But seriously, I want to understand how hard it would be to get this running on ia64. We have a lot of code dying to be examined and I'm interested in starting the porting effort. Is it harder than any other architecture? Have others tried and given up? Any other "top of your head" warnings/ideas/pointers/advice for someone who really doesn't know enough NOT to ask :-) Thanks, Rocky Craig Open Source and Linux Operation Integrity Server Manageability Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, Colorado |
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From: Nicholas N. <nj...@cs...> - 2007-03-01 21:32:28
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On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Craig, Rocky wrote: > But seriously, I want to understand how hard it would be to get > this running on ia64. We have a lot of code dying to be examined > and I'm interested in starting the porting effort. > > Is it harder than any other architecture? > > Have others tried and given up? > > Any other "top of your head" warnings/ideas/pointers/advice for > someone who really doesn't know enough NOT to ask :-) Julian has given this some consideration. My understanding is that IA64 would be extremely difficult, partly because it's VLIW, and partly because of some other weird IA64 features. I can't remember what they are now. Nick |