From owner-freebsd-java Wed Aug 9 1:42:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from hermes.research.kpn.com (hermes.research.kpn.com [139.63.192.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D261F37B8F6; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 01:42:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from K.J.Koster@kpn.com) Received: from l04.research.kpn.com (l04.research.kpn.com [139.63.192.204]) by research.kpn.com (PMDF V5.2-31 #42699) with ESMTP id <01JSRHQBAWNA0007DJ@research.kpn.com>; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 10:42:46 +0200 Received: by l04.research.kpn.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Wed, 09 Aug 2000 10:42:46 +0100 Content-return: allowed Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 10:42:44 +0100 From: "Koster, K.J." Subject: Wanted: DEC Alpha Java porters To: 'FreeBSD Java mailing list' , 'FreeBSD Alpha mailing list' Message-id: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D776B@l04.research.kpn.com> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dear All, I have updated my web pages with build instructions for the native FreeBSD JDK 1.2.2 on DEC Alpha hardware. The build stops because we need some form of sysInvokeNative() function. On the sparc and i386 this function is written in assembler. For the Alpha, this function is not available at this time. It would be quite cool if someone sat down to write this function in DEC Alpha assembler. From what I have seen, it does not look all that difficult, and you'll have a working example in both sparc and i386 assembler. There's also quite a bit of comment on what it should do, so you're not looking at a blurp of incomprehensible (what a word) code. Alternately, it would be nice to have that function in C, which I think should also be doable. This would be especially nice because it makes future moves to other hardware much easier (think NetBSD). It may be too much to ask, but it would great to have both a C version and DEC assembler version. Ah, if wishes were horses... My page is at: http://web.inter.nl.net/users/kjkoster/java/index.html If you get HTTP 403 errors, use the mirror, (thanks to Cliff Rowley): http://java.onsea.com/java/ Either way, click on "build for DEC Alpha" under "Howto's" and off you go! Kees Jan ================================================= TV is the worst of both worlds. It's not as good at words as radio is because the pictures are a distraction which demand attention, and it's not as good as cinema because the pictures are not nearly as good. [Douglas Adams] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message