From owner-freebsd-embedded@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 15 16:59:24 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C71D1065677 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:59:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from harmony.bsdimp.com (bsdimp.com [199.45.160.85]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD20C8FC0A for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:59:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.bsdimp.com (8.14.2/8.14.1) with ESMTP id mAFGvTYK080771; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:57:30 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:58:38 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20081115.095838.1649769600.imp@bsdimp.com> To: bms@incunabulum.net From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <491EEDA6.7040309@incunabulum.net> References: <491EEDA6.7040309@incunabulum.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ARM Jazelle support X-BeenThere: freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Dedicated and Embedded Systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:59:24 -0000 In message: <491EEDA6.7040309@incunabulum.net> Bruce Simpson writes: : Bit of a long shot, just curious. : : Has anyone considered what it would take to implement the necessary : context switch magic to support Jazelle mode in various ARM9 cores? : : Native Java support could be really useful, particularly so on the : OpenMoko Neo, where FreeBSD is already known to run using das u-Boot: : http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/FreeBSD When I looked at Jazelle support, the context switch stuff was well documented, but the rest of the magic needed to make it work was under NDA. Has that changed? Warner