[parisc-linux] Re: [Linux-ia64] Linux, Itanium and PA/RISC

Matthew Wilcox willy@debian.org
Mon, 24 Mar 2003 12:10:37 +0000


On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 11:41:18AM +0100, Adriano Galano wrote:
> Hi all:
> 
> I read that IA-64 support PA-RISC instruction mapping. That's mean that I
> can use Linux for PA/RISC (http://www.parisc-linux.org/) in a Itanium 2
> computer?

No.  You certainly can't run a PA-RISC kernel on an IA64 box, just like
you can't run an x86 kernel on an ia64 box.

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