Re: PostgreSQL on IA-64?
От | Bruce Momjian |
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Тема | Re: PostgreSQL on IA-64? |
Дата | |
Msg-id | 200007051708.NAA08710@candle.pha.pa.us обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | RE: PostgreSQL on IA-64? ("Tran, Jantz C" <jantz.c.tran@intel.com>) |
Список | pgsql-ports |
Someone just posted a patch today to the patches/bugs list, and I applied most of it. See the archives. [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] > > Thomas, > > I take it then that the answer to my original question is no =). I spoke to > a RedHat representative last week about the same issue since they are > currently porting their Linux distribution to IA-64 and I believe PostgreSQL > is at least part of their x86 distribution. He said, however, that they > haven't ported PostgreSQL yet because of the assembler code you mentioned. I > suppose if an IA-64 port was being done or will be done (by RedHat, etc.) > that the people here will be the first to know (is that a correct > assumption?). I just wanted to make sure there was no duplication of effort > assuming I were to arrange something ;). > > That being said, if I were interested in getting an IA-64 port started, > where would I begin? Hardware contributions might be a possibility (although > I know you were jesting =), as we typically ship Itanium SDVs to ISVs doing > such porting work. Due to the decentralized nature of this project, however, > I imagine it might be difficult to accomplish this because of the legal > hoops you have to jump through to get a machine (i.e. is there an > organization? where would it go? who would be responsible for it?). Another > (much better, I think) alternative would be to make an Itanium system > available on the network and the porting work could be done remotely. I > remember Intel announcing such an initiative a few months back for > opensource development on IA-64, but I don't know if that program is active > yet (I'd have to check). If not, I could make one of the Itanium systems in > our lab here available on the network. We even have betas of RedHat Linux > running on them already (development tools and all). > > Which comes to the last question of developer resources =). Would there be > any developers available for doing such porting work? Since there is already > an Alpha port it shouldn't be that difficult. The biggest problem may be > with porting the assembly code and also getting it to work on what is > essentially beta-level OS/tools/hardware. > > Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. > > Jantz > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas Lockhart [mailto:lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 8:45 AM > To: Tran, Jantz C > Cc: 'pgsql-ports@postgresql.org' > Subject: Re: [PORTS] PostgreSQL on IA-64? > > > > Does anyone know if there is currently any effort to port PostgreSQL to > > IA-64? If so, does anyone have the contact information of the person doing > > this port? Thanks. > > Please send hardware ;) > > We have just gotten Postgres to be completely happy on Alpha boxes > without requiring patching. For a new platform, there is only a little > bit of assembler code to help with locks. Perhaps you might want to > arrange to contribute something for IA-64? > > - Thomas > > -- Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026
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