Re: Possible donation of Itanium servers

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Julien Savard <juliensavard17%gmail.com@localhost> writes:

> Hi,
> NetBSD has no (official) support for itanium yet. Don't know if it is because of lack of hardware or interest. Nevertheless, that would be awesome if someone can work on it.
>
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 10:22 AM Osipov, Michael <michael.osipov%siemens.com@localhost> wrote:
>
>  Hi folks,
>
>  we have several Intel Itanium severs from HPE which we are going to 
>  replace by the end of this year. They are quite large (4U). We could 
>  donate them (after some internal clarifications) to the foundation. They 
>  must be picked up by someone in Berlin, Germany.
>
>  I did not contact the netbsd-ia64 mailing list because it seems to be dead.
>
>  Best regards,
>
>  Michael Osipov

Hello,
I've been working on itanium infrequently for awhile, albeit without a
lot of progress.

Anyone from NetBSD near Berlin willing to help save these machines?
Please contact me offlist.

Thanks
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