From: Ferris McCormick <fmccor@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-sparc@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-sparc] GWN "Want ad" for sparc architecture testers
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:40:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1190900400.6890.41.camel@liasis.inforead.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070927081643.364d4c7a.alex.buell@munted.org.uk>
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On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 08:16 +0100, Alex Buell wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:49:10 +0000, I waved a wand and this message
> magically appears in front of Ferris McCormick:
>
> > > 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.
>
> I thknk gcj could do the job just as well. It can compile to bytecode.
>
jamvm is a java machine, not a compiler.
> > 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).
>
> I think it's enormously vital that Sun get off their butts and do
> something about it - porting the linuxintel version to linuxsparc
> should work. I've actually dug around in the jvm sources and they do
> have some assembly in various places. These would have to be rewritten
> for the sparc platform.
>
Interesting. Do you think it would be easier to port from linux intel
than from solaris/sparc? That might make a lot of sense.
(Depending on how much assembly code there is, and whether anyone can
read it. How much is needed outside, perhaps, the atomic operations
like atomic_add or test_and_set?)
> > 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.
>
> Thanks
> Alex
> --
> http://www.munted.org.uk
>
> Fearsome grindings.
Thanks and regards,
--
Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@gentoo.org>
Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-27 13:49 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
2007-09-27 7:16 ` Alex Buell
2007-09-27 10:29 ` Jim Watson
2007-09-27 13:40 ` Ferris McCormick [this message]
2007-09-26 20:49 ` Jim Watson
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