Hi all,

I know its been a couple of days already but I just wanted to say thanks
for the help. I didn't apply in the end but I would like to keep
collaborating to the project anyway.

Cheers,
Esteban
On Mar 19, 2014 9:05 PM, "Martin Decky" <[email protected]> wrote:

> ia64 (aka Itanium) is a different architecture than amd64 (also called
>> x86-64).
>>
>
> Exactly. The architectures ia32 (aka x86) and amd64 (aka x86-64, plus many
> other names) are closely related to each other and both are primary
> architectures for HelenOS.
>
> The ia64 architecture, on the other hand, is mostly unrelated to ia32 and
> amd64 (*). HelenOS works on ia64 (despite the fact that the support is not
> so shiny and there are many features still missing). You can either use the
> ski [1] emulator (this is what tools/ew.py runs) or a real machine based on
> the Intel 440GX chipset (I believe that Simics still provides some limited
> emulation of such a machine, but gaining access to Simics is rather
> complicated nowadays).
>
> (*) Except the involvement of Intel Corporation.
> [1] http://ski.sourceforge.net/
>
>
> M.D.
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