Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 14:19:16 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Java on FBSD-sparc64? Message-ID: <20070507181916.GA49871@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20070507181632.GA38445@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <6d7d37410705031723lbbaa963gb34b698f9c26f73d@mail.gmail.com> <20070504004031.GA96649@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070507181632.GA38445@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
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On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 11:16:32AM -0700, Greg Lewis wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 08:40:31PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 02:23:33AM +0200, Didrik Madheden wrote: > > > I'm looking for a virtual machine with decent performance. (And > > > preferably a JDK, commandline preferred) I've tried a few things in > > > ports, but unfortunately, mos of it was i386/amd64 only. > > > Is it possible, or do I have to switch to some flavour of Solaris? > > > > It is not possible at this time. Probably there has not been enough > > interest for someone to port it. > > Last I checked, the only threading library that worked on sparc64 was > libc_r, and that is going away at the end of 6.x. So that also puts a > dampener on things unless its changed. > > FWIW, JDK 1.3 was partially ported to sparc64, but not all the 64 bit > uncleanliness was worked out. JDK 1.5 and up should be 64 bit clean, > but there hasn't been much interest in a sparc64 port. No, libthr has worked for some time. Kris
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