Java on FBSD-sparc64?

[Kip Macy]

On 5/7/07, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 01:01:33PM -0700, Greg Lewis wrote:
> > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 02:19:16PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 11:16:32AM -0700, Greg Lewis wrote:
> > > > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 08:40:31PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 02:23:33AM +0200, Didrik Madheden wrote:
> > > > > > I'm looking for a virtual machine with decent performance. (And
> > > > > > preferably a JDK, commandline preferred) I've tried a few things in
> > > > > > ports, but unfortunately, mos of it was i386/amd64 only.
> > > > > > Is it possible, or do I have to switch to some flavour of Solaris?
> > > > >
> > > > > It is not possible at this time.  Probably there has not been enough
> > > > > interest for someone to port it.
> > > >
> > > > Last I checked, the only threading library that worked on sparc64 was
> > > > libc_r, and that is going away at the end of 6.x.  So that also puts a
> > > > dampener on things unless its changed.
> > > >
> > > > FWIW, JDK 1.3 was partially ported to sparc64, but not all the 64 bit
> > > > uncleanliness was worked out.  JDK 1.5 and up should be 64 bit clean,
> > > > but there hasn't been much interest in a sparc64 port.
> > >
> > > No, libthr has worked for some time.
> >
> > Cool :).  I was unaware of that.  Maybe I'll fire up my Ultra 10 when
> > the 1.6 port is done :).
> >
> > Bootstrapping could be seriously painful, but that can be worked around.
>
> Ugh, ultra 10 :) We can hook you up with something bigger when you are
> ready, let me know if it would help.

People have asked about Java support for sun4v (which from the user
perspective is sparc64). There are a couple of T1000s in the cluster
which would be MUCH MUCH faster, but sun4v support isn't really all
that usable at the moment.


                -Kip