IA-64 Port History


Large Industry Focus on IA-64

HP Already a Significant Contributor 
HP Labs Hosting Key Contributors
David Mosberger - principle kernel maintainer
Stephane Eranian - gnu-efi, elilo, pfmon, etc
Co-Developer with Intel of the Architecture

Commercial Distributions had a Head-Start
TL Worked, but was Rough
RH, SuSE, Caldera Early Betas