Sparc64

[Eirik Øverby]

On Jan 31, 2008, at 11:44 PM, Landon Fuller wrote:

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> On Jan 31, 2008, at 13:43, Eirik Øverby wrote:
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>> 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.
>
> What's the status of svr4 emulation on sparc64? I forgot a critical  
> piece; One needs a bootstrap JVM, and bootstrapping off of Sun's VM  
> would make things easier.

I have absolutely no idea whatsoever.

/Eirik

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> -landonf