Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:37:15 -0800 From: Landon Fuller <landonf@bikemonkey.org> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Eirik_=D8verby?= <ltning@anduin.net> Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sparc64 Message-ID: <6643EEC4-3DEE-479D-9EA1-F907CB31B345@bikemonkey.org> In-Reply-To: <1A554062-5E54-4914-BC8A-AAD580D6EC27@anduin.net> References: <1A554062-5E54-4914-BC8A-AAD580D6EC27@anduin.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Jan 30, 2008, at 14:42, Eirik Øverby wrote: > Hi all, > > an old boring question coming up again... > > For various reasons we have some interest in getting Java running > on FreeBSD-SPARC64. Also, the sun4v platform is of interest, but > currently mostly academic such as the FreeBSD port to sun4v isn't > useful at this stage. > > We are using FreeBSD on a load of old SUN servers that their owners > can't or won't dispose of. Having Java available would make these > systems even more useful, and might bring in more business for us. > > So, put plainly, what kind of man-hours are we talking about to > bring Java 1.5 to fbsd-sparc64? At first glance, it doesn't look to be more than a couple weeks of work (at the high end). Someone on the OpenJDK lists recently asked about Linux/Sparc, which would require roughly the same effort (implementing os_cpu for bsd_sparc): http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2007-September/ 000138.html http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/porters-dev/2008-January/ 000078.html > And what kind of money/support/inspiration would be needed to make > this a priority? Seems like the biggest problem is access to freebsd/sparc64, and -- of course -- finding someone sufficiently excited about doing the porting work =) -landonf [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) iD8DBQFHoj+LlplZCE/15mMRAvMuAJ9+I7m6dI2sOQ63YwAI5Z6VxxmDLQCfYOj7 gMPcWcyH1VSq0S4JFe2WVbg= =L9Ye -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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