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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:58:36 +0200
From: Alexey Zelkin <phantom@FreeBSD.org.ua>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] ia64/sparc64 jdk 1.5.0 ports?
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hi,

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 02:52:42PM +0000, Ian G wrote:
> Alexey Zelkin wrote:
> 
> >Gentelmen,
> >
> >I'd like to listen about people opinion -- DO WE NEED ia64 and/or sparc64
> >PORT OF JDK15 ?  Please take it as little survey, and post your thoughts
> >privately or to mailing list.
> > 
> >
> 
> Do you mean the Intel 64 bit architecture that
> bombed?  If so, I vote NO.  My guess is that
> sometime around mid 2004, Intel canned that
> future in private and is migrating it out over time.
> 
> Same vote for Sparc64.  Not for my money.

Thank you for your opinion
 
> ( If you mean the AMD Opteron architecture, then
> definately YES. )

It's already in-tree, working and will be part of patchset1 release.

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