Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 01:28:40 +0930 From: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> To: "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com> Cc: "'Jev'" <jev@ecad.org>, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: java status and Message-ID: <20010816012839.A95425@misty.eyesbeyond.com> In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FD9EB2@l04.research.kpn.com>; from K.J.Koster@kpn.com on Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 03:37:05PM %2B0100 References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FD9EB2@l04.research.kpn.com>
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On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 03:37:05PM +0100, Koster, K.J. wrote: > > `-> I heard there were certain requirements that an OS has to > > meet before being supported, what are these requirements? > > > I don't know where you heard this. Any solid references? > > The source code to the JDK is some 25 megs of a mix of C, shell scripts, > assembler and makefiles. You need all of this to work to get a JDK. I think > that's taxing enough for any OS without Sun specifying others as well. :-) Don't forget C++ as well :). The current Sub distribution looks like: > du -s * 49 LegalReadme.txt 744 OriginalCode.txt 57 README.html 13951 hotspot1.3.1 111101 j2sdk1.3.1 So, probably a little larger than 25M now, although some in Windows specific code and there are certainly binary objects there as well. > The FreeBSD 4.x kernel has no kernel threads. The JDKs rely on kernel > threads Nope. The only thing kernel threads provide is the ability to utilise multiple CPUs. The JDK will work quite well with FreeBSD's userland pthreads (we just have to finish this part of the porting). > > The native freebsd jdk port, can users in only certain countries > > use this? > > > I don't know. I imagine that our license would be as > restrictive/unrestrictive as the regular Solaris and Linux one. I think that maybe this is referring to the current port, which requires one to download the source code. It does limit things to certain countries. However, as Kees Jan says, a binary distribution is likely to be under the same area restrictions as the binary distributions Sun make available. > > Does BSDi have a fully functional fully supported jdk? > > > River Wind (or was it Wind River? formerly BSDi) is working on their own > port. I'm not sure about the status of the 1.2.2 port. They have one man > working full-time on the BSD/OS 1.3.1 port. His work is also imported into > the patch sets that Greg Lewis publishes. Wind River :). You'll see Bill Huey (who is working on this) post to the list periodically. -- Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Phone : (801) 765 1887 Information Technology Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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