From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 8 00:22:47 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA04916A406 for ; Tue, 8 May 2007 00:22:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kip.macy@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.168]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66AB613C484 for ; Tue, 8 May 2007 00:22:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kip.macy@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 71so9097ugh for ; Mon, 07 May 2007 17:22:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=DiZZXGncOpleGfL63EZ75CZhk/5fqBp3nHo/hIaNFewHCYXLOjgZwRvO0vQ9y64C0BuxOEoyVg4uL1EDuo/WXfWUnkvqUFlW8n0TuIgLprD5fPwiRQQyUEWZm5Uadpzt5XCHu3KoH8zU3R5AbsuWyXK0mU89g/nP8xc/7XY8lRs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=WVXZ5+MoWfR/MLqYHK8ucZoQ5YE6BhQA/0skbXON9vTGRGCgOQ+Ola0wx+tW37/3uV8UPoeUyz3anFe4IGoexF/udkNDrzV/wnQTg8sWAZFMRAwTXkKejWZDKQnmT9QPV+ao/zLupWk9MBLTXRmOIDUdpOOg6QM6MN0hNYzWnlU= Received: by 10.78.138.14 with SMTP id l14mr2282369hud.1178582169495; Mon, 07 May 2007 16:56:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.107.13 with HTTP; Mon, 7 May 2007 16:56:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 16:56:09 -0700 From: "Kip Macy" To: "Kris Kennaway" In-Reply-To: <20070507235343.GA59778@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <6d7d37410705031723lbbaa963gb34b698f9c26f73d@mail.gmail.com> <20070504004031.GA96649@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070507181632.GA38445@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <20070507181916.GA49871@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070507200133.GA39275@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <20070507235343.GA59778@xor.obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Java on FBSD-sparc64? X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 00:22:48 -0000 On 5/7/07, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 01:01:33PM -0700, Greg Lewis wrote: > > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 02:19:16PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Cool :). I was unaware of that. Maybe I'll fire up my Ultra 10 when > > the 1.6 port is done :). > > > > Bootstrapping could be seriously painful, but that can be worked around. > > Ugh, ultra 10 :) We can hook you up with something bigger when you are > ready, let me know if it would help. People have asked about Java support for sun4v (which from the user perspective is sparc64). There are a couple of T1000s in the cluster which would be MUCH MUCH faster, but sun4v support isn't really all that usable at the moment. -Kip