[OpenBIOS] Re: boy is EFI a kludge!

[Chris Maresca]

I was just at LinuxWorld in SF and Intel had a running Itanium box in what
looked like a compactPCI chassis.  They said it was a development platform
and was named 'bluebox'.

Don't know about the chipset, tho'.

Chris.

On 29 Aug 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> Ronald G Minnich <rminnich at lanl.gov> writes:
> 
> > > Ron unless you have something better I'd suggest using one of the
> > > upcoming dual Itanium/P4 chipsets as a starting point.  Then you could
> > > be certain the chipset worked before on x86 before trying to reverse
> > > engineer the cpu initialization for the Itanium...
> > 
> > do we have a vendor name yet?
> 
> I have seen reports that both Intel and IBM are working on chipsets
> that will support that.   I think the reports were talking many way
> SMP but possibly that is because where Itanium is positioned.  This
> looks like it may be in the McKinley time frame.  I have a strange
> hunch that McKinley will be bus compatible with the P4.  This is what
> I am picking up through osmosis reading the reviews.  
> 
> Eric
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