[gentoo-sparc] [Fwd: Icedtea for Linux_sparc (was Re: [Aurora-sparc-user] Linux vs. Solaris)]

[gentoo-sparc] [Fwd: Icedtea for Linux_sparc (was Re: [Aurora-sparc-user] Linux vs. Solaris)]

[Ferris McCormick]

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Perhaps of interest.

-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com>
To: floess@mindspring.com
Cc: Aurora user discussion <aurora-sparc-user@lists.auroralinux.org>,
sparclinux <sparclinux@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Icedtea for Linux_sparc (was Re: [Aurora-sparc-user] Linux vs.
Solaris)
Date: 	Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:46:22 -0500

On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 10:12 -0500, Scot P. Floess wrote:
> Not sure as icedtea took care of whatever downloads it required...
> The only requirement I saw was the latest RH gcj with generics
> extension...  When  I installed this under Fedora 7 - its just
> downloaded and built everything it needed.

I looked into this, and there is definitely missing code.

Everything in openjdk/hotspot/src/os_cpu/linux_sparc/vm/* would need to
be written. I don't know SPARC asm, so I can't do this work.

(CCing sparclinux@vger, in the hopes that someone there might be
interested in writing this code)

~spot

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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@gentoo.org>
Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc)


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