Other architectures?

[Alexey Zelkin]

hi,

[Sorry, picked latest letter in thread to answer original question]

Most notable problem for porting of HotSpot to any other architectures
is 'cpu dependent part'.  I don't think that I have enough skills to
even write something alternative to Sun's i386 CPU dependent part
implementation without complete docs (which are unavailable) and
considerable amount of time, not to mention other arches.

Sun implemented HotSpot on i486, sparc and ia64.  So, it's possible
someday to see native jdk ports on sparc64 and ia64, but it will
very depend on availbility of time and hardware here :-(

On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 09:34:45PM -0700, Tom Samplonius wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 k.j.koster at telecom.tno.nl wrote:
> 
> ...
> > > > beta out for 1.4.1 for quite some time.  Alpha is harder, 
> > > > but certainly not impossible.
> > >
> > The limiting factor for Alpha is to find someone who can write the
> > native method invocations in Alpha assembler. This should be a day or
> > two work for someone who's proficient in Alpha assembler. I did some
> > of the groundwork (basic stuff) and wrote a little about it on my web
> > site (http://www.kjkoster.org/java/).
> 
>   But that would just be for native method invocation.  Wouldn't Hotspot
> would require considerable more work?  Not that I'm proposing any such
> thing for a discontinued architecture...  sparc64 would be interesting
> though.
> 
> ...
> >     Kees Jan
> > 
> > =====================================================
> >  You can't have everything.  Where would you put it?
> >                                      [Steven Wright]
> > 
> > 
> 
> Tom
> 
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