From owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 26 12:14:48 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 A64D237B401 for ; Mon, 26 May 2003 12:14:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay1.cris.net (relay1.cris.net [212.110.128.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAF3B43F85 for ; Mon, 26 May 2003 12:14:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ml@phantom.cris.net) Received: from phantom.cris.net (root@phantom.cris.net [212.110.130.74]) by relay1.cris.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h4QLNsS8091509; Mon, 26 May 2003 21:23:55 GMT Received: (from ml@localhost) by phantom.cris.net (8.12.6/8.12.2) id h4QJLg6X089728; Mon, 26 May 2003 22:21:42 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ml) Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 22:21:42 +0300 From: Alexey Zelkin To: ticso@cicely.de Message-ID: <20030526222142.A89689@phantom.cris.net> References: <20030526153641.GC55219@cicely12.cicely.de> <16082.16392.155803.403138@emerger.yogotech.com> <20030526165016.GB66136@cicely12.cicely.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20030526165016.GB66136@cicely12.cicely.de>; from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de on Mon, May 26, 2003 at 06:50:17PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE i386 cc: Nate Williams cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: jdk on alpha 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: Mon, 26 May 2003 19:14:48 -0000 Sorry to say, but I doubt that you'll be able to even compile (someday) jdk14 on alpha. Unlike jdk13 it does not have classic VM implementation and it means that first pre-requisite of new platform port is MD implementation for cpu/ part. Unfortunatelly I doubt that I, you or somebody will be able to port it to alpha (since this is mostly "do it from scratch" task) without significant time investments and not being Sun employee. Since Sun provides HotSpot's CPU implementations for 'i386', 'sparc' and 'ia64' platforms only -- there're some chances that someday these will be supported by FreeBSD, but nothing more. PS: I am speaking about HotSpot Java World only. On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 06:50:17PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 10:25:44AM -0600, Nate Williams wrote: > > > What are the outstanding issues? > > > > > > I've read on http://kjkoster.org/java/content/newarch.jsp that > > > invokeNative_alpha.s needs to be done. > > > Is this still true? > > > > Yes. > > OK - that needs to be done. Keep in mind -- it's for classic VM only (i.e. no JIT and 1.3 only). [..]