From: Ferris McCormick <fmccor@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-sparc@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Jim Watson <jim@amarooas.com.au>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-sparc] GWN "Want ad" for sparc architecture testers
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:49:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1190818150.6890.33.camel@liasis.inforead.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070926142503.58805757.alex.buell@munted.org.uk>
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On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 14:25 +0100, Alex Buell wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:41:59 +1000, I waved a wand and this message
> magically appears in front of Jim Watson:
>
>
> > It is also needed to find if a problem is sparc related - test on
> > different platforms. I can help you with that.
> >
> > There are currently not any bugs upstream that are specific to sparc.
> >
> > I am not a gentoo user, but doing the upstream OOo port for sparc
>
> Right, I've tried unmasking the OOO ebuild on sparc and building it -
> it stopped with an error probably ~50% though. I can try this again and
> file bug reports if that's necessary?
>
> As for there being a lack of a Java VM on sparc, if anyone's working on
> porting Sun's JVM, I can help with testing the builds.
Supposedly, this is very hard to hopeless (according to sun). There are
more promising alternatives, such as jamvm or perhaps cacao. I have
played a bit with jamvm, and I think it could be made to work. It's
mostly a matter of figuring out what order the arguments to a couple
macros which are used for test-and-swap are given, and making a few
memcopy macros work right. I've had it running; just not quite
correctly.
jamvm (or something like it) would make a very nice project. Sun java
would probably not (I think sun have it on their to-do list, but
considered long-term and difficult).
If you want to be an AT, please set it up with jmbsvicetto or with me;
it's mostly a matter of getting you through the ebuild quiz.
> Alex
> --
> http://www.munted.org.uk
>
> Fearsome grindings.
Regards,
--
Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@gentoo.org>
Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-26 14:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-24 15:33 [gentoo-sparc] GWN "Want ad" for sparc architecture testers Ferris McCormick
2007-09-24 16:01 ` Alex Buell
2007-09-25 22:37 ` Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
2007-09-25 23:07 ` Alex Buell
2007-09-26 9:41 ` Jim Watson
2007-09-26 13:25 ` Alex Buell
2007-09-26 14:49 ` Ferris McCormick [this message]
2007-09-27 7:16 ` Alex Buell
2007-09-27 10:29 ` Jim Watson
2007-09-27 13:40 ` Ferris McCormick
2007-09-26 20:49 ` Jim Watson
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