From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 7 18:19:17 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C862616A400 for ; Mon, 7 May 2007 18:19:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7D3F13C448 for ; Mon, 7 May 2007 18:19:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15A2A1A4DC8; Mon, 7 May 2007 11:19:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 393EA511FE; Mon, 7 May 2007 14:19:16 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 14:19:16 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Greg Lewis Message-ID: <20070507181916.GA49871@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <6d7d37410705031723lbbaa963gb34b698f9c26f73d@mail.gmail.com> <20070504004031.GA96649@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070507181632.GA38445@misty.eyesbeyond.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070507181632.GA38445@misty.eyesbeyond.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: Java on FBSD-sparc64? X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 18:19:17 -0000 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. Kris