From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 23 19:24:49 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A49F7106564A for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:24:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from superbisquit@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pz0-f54.google.com (mail-pz0-f54.google.com [209.85.210.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7146A8FC0A for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:24:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by daec6 with SMTP id c6so1769891dae.13 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:24:49 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of superbisquit@gmail.com designates 10.68.132.229 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.68.132.229; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of superbisquit@gmail.com designates 10.68.132.229 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=superbisquit@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=superbisquit@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.68.132.229]) by 10.68.132.229 with SMTP id ox5mr7894551pbb.65.1330025089009 (num_hops = 1); Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:24:49 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=YdOQkjAaJ3tkRJcIUsZDLxYBVf4854i3c0UMJOrIkYg=; b=jcS0r1Kkdx6hvJa2xMVcpRI3gBylULIcroIAq1g1PgAx9qqX2QoER/5g8P17kNPhwu X9+EtXJFjY4RNsiMOrNkqSPwMdjByi6lqhFDtjsmGwhuRJUTxRlD/fMI/p93kECDK0Ue zmWetqD7ATy3CQ+9pEnuzmtnb9VXxaqdMFomc= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.68.132.229 with SMTP id ox5mr6459843pbb.65.1330025088865; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:24:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.68.48.35 with HTTP; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:24:48 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <20120222215546.26d79836@narn.knownspace> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:24:48 -0500 Message-ID: From: Super Bisquit To: FreeBSD PowerPC ML Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: Suggestions for porting software and other items X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:24:49 -0000 If you say so, I'll ask someone at both the Oracle/JAVA and IBM/POWERLinux forums about acquiring the source package. It may be worthwhile if a few members of the FReeBSD community- those with commit priviledges, et al- would also join both forums. On 2/23/12, Super Bisquit wrote: > JRE and SDK are at version 7 for PPC linux > > On 2/22/12, Justin Hibbits wrote: >> On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:52:26 -0500 >> Super Bisquit wrote: >> >>> How difficult would it be for me to port JAVA to FreeBSD on the >>> Power(PC) platform? >>> I don't know code but I can use another port as a a template. I've >>> just joined the IBM POWER community and have access to the Linux >>> version of JAVA. >>> >>> Second. I recently met a gentleman from NASA; I'll get back to this in >>> a minute. Anyway ...., NASA's programs are open sourced now. One >>> program/suite that would probably work better on either the Power(PC) >>> or SPARC architecture is S4P. >>> >>> After talking with the person in question, I learned about NASA's >>> internship program. >>> I'm just curious as to whether or not there is a need/want/desire for >>> having FreeBSD systems in such an area. >>> >>> Way of topic: Does anyone think that combining the SPARC and POWER >>> architectures into a single cpu would be beneficial? >> >> If you have access to the Linux/ppc source, porting to FreeBSD >> shouldn't be too difficult, but likely non-trivial. Which version do >> you have access to? I believe the latest one available is for 1.5, but >> the latest Java for x86 is 6 or 7. I had started on trying to get >> vmkit building, but put that on hold after just getting gcj building >> (recall my post a few months ago regarding that). >> >> - Justin >> >