[Info-vax] Are any Itanium firmware versions still legally available for free ?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-01-29, John E. Malmberg <wb8tyw at qsl.net_work> wrote:
> On 1/28/2019 12:49 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> Are any Itanium firmware versions that support the latest version of
>> Itanium VMS still legally available for free ?
>> 
>> I know they were closed off several years ago, but an online newspaper
>> article at the time claims that security updates would still be
>> freely available to everyone:
>> 
>> https://www.extremetech.com/computing/176468-customer-disservice-hp-cuts-off-firmware-fixes-for-enterprise-customers-without-ongoing-service-plans
>> 
>> Is that article incorrect ?
>> 
>> My reason for asking is that I briefly looked at what would be involved
>> in writing an Itanium emulator as a possible future project sometime.
>
> If your objective is to run non-privileged OpenVMS binaries on that 
> emulator and not full emulation, then as long as you have an OpenVMS 
> host, you do not need the firmware.
>

The objective was a full system emulator hosted under Linux, not an
image level translator like Ski currently does for Linux Itanium binaries.

Simon.

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