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Date:      Thu, 26 Apr 2001 09:38:24 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
To:        Uncle George <gatgul@voicenet.com>
Cc:        "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com>, "'Greg Lewis'" <glewis@eyesbeyond.com>, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG>, nate@FreeBSD.ORG, java@FreeBSD.ORG, Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
Subject:   Re: java for FreeBSD/alpha
Message-ID:  <15080.16624.660435.299665@nomad.yogotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <3AE80717.F5038036@voicenet.com>
References:  <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FD9B85@l04.research.kpn.com> <3AE80717.F5038036@voicenet.com>

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> " this biggest problem at this moment" is the lack of a bin license to
> distribute your completed efforts. This is my opinion, of course.

Not necessarily, since an assembly program could be used by the Linux
folks if they wished to create a Alpha binary.

Any work the *BSD group did towards an Alpha port would not go to waste,
IMO.


Nate

> > Dear Greg,
> >
> > I took a stab at it, but got sidetracked.
> >
> > http://kjkoster.org/java/index.jsp?page=content/newarch.jsp
> >
> >     Kees Jan
> >
> > > > > > whats going on with the alpha port of the Sun/JDK stuff ?
> > > > > > is there a port/effort?
> > > >
> > > > There is hardware in place to do the port, but so far no
> > > one has stepped
> > > > up to the plate to do it.
> > >
> > > Biggest problem at the moment is the pieces of assembler that need
> > > writing.  Does anyone even know where there is some documentation on
> > > alpha assembler?
> > >
> > >
> 

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