From owner-freebsd-embedded@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 15 15:41:31 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-embedded@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AC801065670 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:41:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bms@incunabulum.net) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 761798FC24 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:41:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bms@incunabulum.net) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83D011B644B for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:41:29 -0500 (EST) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:41:29 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: Ij4NZ5L7SagXNC2BrARrW2VdCObyuGXyOmGZ9KssREU1 1226763689 Received: from empiric.lon.incunabulum.net (unknown [81.168.51.182]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 013F514CA0 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:41:28 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <491EEDA6.7040309@incunabulum.net> Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:41:26 +0000 From: Bruce Simpson User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-embedded@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: ARM Jazelle support X-BeenThere: freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Dedicated and Embedded Systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:41:31 -0000 Bit of a long shot, just curious. Has anyone considered what it would take to implement the necessary context switch magic to support Jazelle mode in various ARM9 cores? Native Java support could be really useful, particularly so on the OpenMoko Neo, where FreeBSD is already known to run using das u-Boot: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/FreeBSD thanks BMS