From: Jim Watson <jim@amarooas.com.au>
To: gentoo-sparc@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-sparc] GWN "Want ad" for sparc architecture testers
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:29:26 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46FB8606.5020506@amarooas.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070927081643.364d4c7a.alex.buell@munted.org.uk>
Alex Buell wrote
>
> I thknk gcj could do the job just as well. It can compile to bytecode.
>
>
with ecj it is good enough for OpenOffice.org anyway
>> 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.
>
blackdown (jk) ported sun 1.5 for sparc and it would run fine, I built
and used it here, but there was some apparently random signal error that
has blocked it being released...
jim
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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 [this message]
2007-09-27 13:40 ` Ferris McCormick
2007-09-26 20:49 ` Jim Watson
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