Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 23:07:41 +0930 From: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> To: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Other architectures? Message-ID: <20030412230741.A22845@misty.eyesbeyond.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10304111331420.587-100000@misery.sdf.com>; from tom@sdf.com on Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 01:32:29PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10304111331420.587-100000@misery.sdf.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 01:32:29PM -0700, Tom Samplonius wrote: > Would jdk14 build on architectures besides x86? I know Hotspot has a > lot of machine specific code, but there should be code for sparc64 for > sure. But does it build and run on FreeBSD/sparc64? It hasn't been tried on sparc64, although I'm tempted to do so sometime fairly soon. > I would imagine that alpha and ia64 are much harder, and perhaps > impossible, since Sun is not likely to be targetting these platforms. > Perhaps maybe ia64, if Solaris is ported to it sometime in the future. There is ia64 code in the 1.4.1 SCSL release and Sun have had a linux-ia64 beta out for 1.4.1 for quite some time. Alpha is harder, but certainly not impossible. -- Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com Information Technology FreeBSD : glewis@FreeBSD.org
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20030412230741.A22845>