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Date:      Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:41:51 +1000
From:      "Andrew Reilly" <areilly@bigpond.net.au>
To:        Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com>
Cc:        java@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: java for FreeBSD/alpha
Message-ID:  <20010426174150.A46497@gurney.reilly.home>
In-Reply-To: <20010426153822.A22802@misty.eyesbeyond.com>; from glewis@eyesbeyond.com on Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 03:38:23PM %2B0930
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On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 03:38:23PM +0930, Greg Lewis wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 09:26:57AM -0600, Nate Williams wrote:
> > > > whats going on with the alpha port of the Sun/JDK stuff ?
> > > > is there a port/effort?
> > 
> > There is hardware in place to do the port, but so far no one has stepped
> > up to the plate to do it.
> 
> Biggest problem at the moment is the pieces of assembler that need 
> writing.  Does anyone even know where there is some documentation on
> alpha assembler?

How about:

http://www.support.compaq.com/alpha-tools/documentation/current/chip-docs.html

The things that probably need assembly language help (not having
ever looked at it...) might bear a resemblance to some of the
assembly code that's already in the /src/sys tree (state saving
for task switching, and so on).

-- 
Andrew

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