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Date:      Mon, 7 May 2007 13:01:33 -0700
From:      Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Java on FBSD-sparc64?
Message-ID:  <20070507200133.GA39275@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070507181916.GA49871@xor.obsecurity.org>
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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.

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