Sparc64

[Eirik Øverby]

On Jan 31, 2008, at 10:37 PM, Landon Fuller wrote:

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> On Jan 30, 2008, at 14:42, Eirik Øverby wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> an old boring question coming up again...
>>
>> For various reasons we have some interest in getting Java running  
>> on FreeBSD-SPARC64. Also, the sun4v platform is of interest, but  
>> currently mostly academic such as the FreeBSD port to sun4v isn't  
>> useful at this stage.
>>
>> We are using FreeBSD on a load of old SUN servers that their owners  
>> can't or won't dispose of. Having Java available would make these  
>> systems even more useful, and might bring in more business for us.
>>
>> So, put plainly, what kind of man-hours are we talking about to  
>> bring Java 1.5 to fbsd-sparc64?
>
> At first glance, it doesn't look to be more than a couple weeks of  
> work (at the high end). Someone on the OpenJDK lists recently asked  
> about Linux/Sparc, which would require roughly the same effort  
> (implementing os_cpu for bsd_sparc):
> 	http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2007-September/000138.html
> 	http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/porters-dev/2008-January/000078.html
>
>> And what kind of money/support/inspiration would be needed to make  
>> this a priority?
>
> Seems like the biggest problem is access to freebsd/sparc64, and --  
> of course -- finding someone sufficiently excited about doing the  
> porting work =)

I can provide access to one or more jails on fbsd/sparc64. Even host  
access can be considered if necessary.

/Eirik


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> -landonf