Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:44:46 -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: <BBFB1C9E-2679-4092-A483-B7B9BD55EBF0@bikemonkey.org> In-Reply-To: <C4442CD9-D5D7-4E54-99FE-18061C6AA82B@anduin.net> References: <1A554062-5E54-4914-BC8A-AAD580D6EC27@anduin.net> <6643EEC4-3DEE-479D-9EA1-F907CB31B345@bikemonkey.org> <C4442CD9-D5D7-4E54-99FE-18061C6AA82B@anduin.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Jan 31, 2008, at 13:43, Eirik Øverby wrote: > On Jan 31, 2008, at 10:37 PM, Landon Fuller wrote: > >> >> 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 =) > > I can provide access to one or more jails on fbsd/sparc64. Even > host access can be considered if necessary. What's the status of svr4 emulation on sparc64? I forgot a critical piece; One needs a bootstrap JVM, and bootstrapping off of Sun's VM would make things easier. -landonf [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) iD8DBQFHok9elplZCE/15mMRApZXAJ9KmoKEA+HXBtq1fmkZwpnwxqa4aACeL+sJ uKn7XF7s83GoyDTjASpkyQg= =/4eT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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