Asterisk on IA64?

OxleyDave · Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 4:31 am Post subject: Asterisk on IA64?

I was about to buy a new Xeon (EM64T) processor server to run various services including Asterisk, but I've just seen that Asterisk isn't available on IA64. So, a couple of questions:
1. Why?
2. When will it be available?

Cheers,
Dave.

ectospasm · Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 9:41 am Post subject: Re: Asterisk on IA64?

IA64 is Intel's first 64 bit architecture, that never really took off, for a variety of reasons. EM64T is Intel's (AMD64-compatible) x86_64 architecture . IA64 can NOT run x86 code, whereas x86_64 can, most of the time.

If Asterisk runs on x86_64, AFAIK it should run on EM64T. But I'd try to determine the compatibility before I buy some expensive Intel processors. I would also do some googling to verify that my brief description of the differences between IA64 and EM64T is correct. Actually, here's a link that describes the differences adequately.

To answer your questions:

1. Why? IA64 is not a mainstream processor, it was a big flop pushed by Intel. Pretty much the only people that bought into IA64 were large HPC installations, and AFAIK they're moving away from the arch.

2. When will it be available? Probably never, for reasons (not necessarily exhaustively) specified in 1.
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OxleyDave · Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 2:18 pm Post subject:

Thanks for your reply.

As you probably guessed I just assumed that the EM64T would use IA64 ebuilds. I knew the Itanium was IA64, but I am still confused as to what I should be using for EM64T. You've said it is compatible with AMD64, so should I be checking for ebuilds being avialable for AMD64 or x86?

Cheers,
Dave

ectospasm · Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 2:22 pm Post subject:

I'm only making a slightly educated guess. I would do more research, perhaps ask around on #gentoo-amd64 on irc.freenode.net. They're usually the place I go with AMD64 questions.

HTH

EDIT: When you find your definitive answer, please be so kind as to post your result here, in case anyone else searching the forum has the same question.
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ectospasm · Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 2:48 pm Post subject:

I actually did some research in the IRC channel I guided you to, because I'm just interested. Here's a link to a good source of info:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_INTEL_XEON_WITH_EM64T_Optimizations
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