From owner-freebsd-java Thu Mar 11 17:49:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4078715014 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 17:49:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA08443; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 18:48:55 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id SAA17757; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 18:48:42 -0700 Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 18:48:42 -0700 Message-Id: <199903120148.SAA17757@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Cc: "Nate Williams" , "kevin.v" , Subject: RE: jdk1.2 In-Reply-To: <001601be6b5f$9573ec20$6e01a8c0@tasshev.turnaround.com.au> References: <199903110133.SAA12371@mt.sri.com> <001601be6b5f$9573ec20$6e01a8c0@tasshev.turnaround.com.au> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Instead of everyone going from scratch, can we use the Linux sources as a > better starting point than the Solaris reference ones? The linux sources aren't released yet, but hopefully they will help with the porting effort. > How are people's impressions of the source code so far? Unfortunately my > efforts are a combination of learning the FBSD kernel and also the JDK > source so I'm going pretty slooow. You shouldn't need to know anything about the BSD kernel to do the JDK port, although you do need to get chummy with the linker. :( Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message