From owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 12 06:56:32 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDE1437B404 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 06:56:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mgr1.xmission.com (mgr1.xmission.com [198.60.22.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCA6443F85 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 06:56:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glewis@eyesbeyond.com) Received: from mail by mgr1.xmission.com with spam-scanned (Exim 3.35 #1) id 194LT2-0000pS-01 for freebsd-java@freebsd.org; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 07:54:53 -0600 Received: from [207.135.128.145] (helo=misty.eyesbeyond.com) by mgr1.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 194LG4-0006Gv-01; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 07:41:43 -0600 Received: (from glewis@localhost) by misty.eyesbeyond.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h3CDcD622942; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 23:08:13 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from glewis@eyesbeyond.com) X-Authentication-Warning: misty.eyesbeyond.com: glewis set sender to glewis@eyesbeyond.com using -f Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 23:07:41 +0930 From: Greg Lewis To: Tom Samplonius Message-ID: <20030412230741.A22845@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from tom@sdf.com on Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 01:32:29PM -0700 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.5 required=8.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, SIGNATURE_SHORT_DENSE,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT, USER_AGENT_MUTT,X_AUTH_WARNING version=2.43 X-Spam-Level: cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Other architectures? X-BeenThere: freebsd-java@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting Java to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 13:56:33 -0000 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