Currently supported processors are the Itanium and the Itanium 2.
Supported chipsets include:
HP zx1 (only on development branch, see the Perforce repository)
HP i2000
Intel 460GX
Intel E8870
Both Uniprocessor (UP) and Symmetric Multi-processor (SMP) configurations are under active development. At this time, SMP-enabled systems are considered less stable. The current priorities are UP fixes to improve stability.
This section contains additional information about what devices may or may not be supported by FreeBSD/ia64.
Except for the PC chipset embedded ata(4) controllers, most should work out of the box. Eventually, all ia64-compatible ATA controllers are expected to be fully supported. Refer to the following sections for various disk controllers and their current status.
In general, ``PC standard'' serial ports supported by the sio(4) driver are expected to work on Intel legacy machines, but not PA legacy machines. The reason is that all devices on HP machines are memory-mapped and there is no ISA device support other than the PCI dictated VGA legacy.
In addition to sio(4) devices, the following devices fail on non-Intel legacy machines (but should work on boxes with an Intel legacy) because their drivers make ISA-specific assumptions that do not hold:
| sio(4) | No support for memory-mapped I/O |
| syscons(4) | Expect BIOS, VGA probes, etc. |
| pcm(4) | Probes MSS ISA ports ad nauseum |
| atkbd(4), psm(4) | Fixed ISA port locations |
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