From owner-freebsd-java Thu Aug 3 15: 7:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au (ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.246.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCE9937B88C for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 15:07:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glewis@ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au) Received: (from glewis@localhost) by ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA37949; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 07:37:34 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from glewis) From: Greg Lewis Message-Id: <200008032207.HAA37949@ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Linux JDK on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <200008030900.RAA01166@netrinsics.com> from Michael Robinson at "Aug 3, 2000 05:00:45 pm" To: Michael Robinson Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 07:37:34 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL70 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Michael Robinson wrote: > Greg Lewis writes: > >I believe that Sun have released the HotSpot code under the SCSL, as they > >did the JDK 1.2.2, so it should be relatively easy to obtain access to it. > > Let me quote: > > "Install a JIT [snippage] > So, my best information is that the FreeBSD team does not have an idea for > a plan for how to get access to the HotSpot code in JDK 1.3. > > Of course, I may be misinformed. Hi Michael, That was referring to the JIT which came with 1.2.2 (sunwjit). HotSpot is a different beast. Take a look at http://www.sun.com/software/communitysource/hotspot/index.html Nate has already indicated that we should be getting better source code access through Sun and BSDi too :). -- Greg Lewis glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au Computing Officer +61 8 8303 5083 Teletraffic Research Centre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message