[haiku-development] Re: Feasibility of a 64-bit port?
- From: "Kira Scarlett" <rhys@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:41:11 -0700
I thought about an x86_64 port too, but I'm not that excited about trying
to support legacy x86 stuff (and I have an IA64 box lying around idle most
of the time). The 64-bit question was general though - are huge chunks of
Haiku 32-bit specific or would porting to a 64-bit system be fairly
straightforward?
>
>> To familiarize myself some with the Haiku codebase, I'm looking at
>> potentially developing a port for one of two platforms: either the ADI
>> Blackfin DSP or the Intel Itanium. Since Itanium is a 64-bit platform,
> how
>> complex would it be to run Haiku on a 64-bit architecture? I'm assuming
> at
>> minimum quite a bit of code relies on things like specific datatype
> sizes.
>>
>> -Kira Scarlett
>
> Just my personal opinion here, but the IA-64 was really never designed for
> desktop use. Given IA-64 is normally reserved for HP-UX and intel 64-bit
> server systems, and the last major IA-64 chipset release was back in in
> 2007 this would have a VERY tiny user base for all the work. Maybe x86_64
> would be a better choice as it has wide desktop usage? I think the
> PowerPC
> port would have a larger user base then an IA-64 port :)
>
> Just me talking though.
>
> --
> Thanks!
> Alexander von Gluck
>
>
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