Slackware64 on Itanium2?

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On 2009-09-09, James H. Markowitz <noone.RemoveThis@nowhere.net> wrote:
> How difficult would it be to tweak Slackware64 to run on
> Itanium2? I have access to a few Itanium2 boxes and would rather run
> Slackware on them instead of Red Hat or Debain.

You'll have to recompile everything for that platform. Itanium != x86_64.
In other words, there's no way to "tweak" the distro to do this. It's
as complicated as targeting a whole nother platform (which is exactly
what it is).

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"James H. Markowitz" <noone.TakeThisOut@nowhere.net> schreef in bericht
news:h88lq5$omq$2@news.albasani.net...
> How difficult would it be to tweak Slackware64 to run on
> Itanium2? I have access to a few Itanium2 boxes and would rather run
> Slackware on them instead of Red Hat or Debain.
>

There are RISC (Reduced_Intructions_Set_Computers) and CISC
(Complex_Instructions_Set_Computers)processors. Intel, AMD and others are
CISC processors and Itanium like Alpha processors made by DEC (Digital
Equipment Corporation) in the past are RISC processors. So indeed, you have
to wait a while for the engineers (or Guru's) globally, have time to make
Slackware Ready for these kind of Computers, made for RISC applications.
B.T.W there are a lot of information RISC v.s CISC on the net.