From owner-freebsd-java Wed Aug 15 11: 8:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from pcnet1.pcnet.com (pcnet1.pcnet.com [204.213.232.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FA8B37B40C; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 11:08:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eischen@vigrid.com) Received: (from eischen@localhost) by pcnet1.pcnet.com (8.8.7/PCNet) id OAA26096; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 14:07:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 14:07:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen To: John Baldwin Cc: "Koster, K.J." , freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG, Jev Subject: RE: java status and In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 15-Aug-01 Koster, K.J. wrote: > >> > The FreeBSD 4.x kernel has no kernel threads. The JDKs rely > >> > on kernel threads > >> > >> Does -CURRENT have threads? > >> > > Ah, yes. I intended to mention this, but I forgot. Sorry. FreeBSD 5.0 will > > have kernel threads. Needless to say that the usual disclaimers apply about > > newfangled stuff. I think the Java port will be a good test case for FreeBSD > > kernel threading implementation. :-) > > 5.0 _may_ have kernel threads. It is yet to be seen if KSE will be done in > time for 5.0. I doubt we'll have time to write the userland parts of a KSE-based threading library in time for 5.0 (this fall, right?). Hopefully Julian will get the kernel parts done in time for 5.0. -- Dan Eischen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message