Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 07:45:35 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Eirik_=D8verby?= <ltning@anduin.net> To: Landon Fuller <landonf@bikemonkey.org> Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sparc64 Message-ID: <0AD0FFC0-32E3-410D-B391-682E69647533@anduin.net> In-Reply-To: <BBFB1C9E-2679-4092-A483-B7B9BD55EBF0@bikemonkey.org> References: <1A554062-5E54-4914-BC8A-AAD580D6EC27@anduin.net> <6643EEC4-3DEE-479D-9EA1-F907CB31B345@bikemonkey.org> <C4442CD9-D5D7-4E54-99FE-18061C6AA82B@anduin.net> <BBFB1C9E-2679-4092-A483-B7B9BD55EBF0@bikemonkey.org>
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On Jan 31, 2008, at 11:44 PM, Landon Fuller wrote: > > 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. I have absolutely no idea whatsoever. /Eirik > > > -landonfhelp
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