Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:37:15 -0800 From: Landon Fuller <landonf@bikemonkey.org> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Eirik_=D8verby?= <ltning@anduin.net> Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sparc64 Message-ID: <6643EEC4-3DEE-479D-9EA1-F907CB31B345@bikemonkey.org> In-Reply-To: <1A554062-5E54-4914-BC8A-AAD580D6EC27@anduin.net> References: <1A554062-5E54-4914-BC8A-AAD580D6EC27@anduin.net>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --Apple-Mail-40-169936232 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; delsp=yes; format=flowed On Jan 30, 2008, at 14:42, Eirik =D8verby wrote: > Hi all, > > an old boring question coming up again... > > For various reasons we have some interest in getting Java running =20 > on FreeBSD-SPARC64. Also, the sun4v platform is of interest, but =20 > currently mostly academic such as the FreeBSD port to sun4v isn't =20 > useful at this stage. > > We are using FreeBSD on a load of old SUN servers that their owners =20= > can't or won't dispose of. Having Java available would make these =20 > systems even more useful, and might bring in more business for us. > > So, put plainly, what kind of man-hours are we talking about to =20 > bring Java 1.5 to fbsd-sparc64? At first glance, it doesn't look to be more than a couple weeks of =20 work (at the high end). Someone on the OpenJDK lists recently asked =20 about Linux/Sparc, which would require roughly the same effort =20 (implementing os_cpu for bsd_sparc): = http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2007-September/=20 000138.html http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/porters-dev/2008-January/=20= 000078.html > And what kind of money/support/inspiration would be needed to make =20 > this a priority? Seems like the biggest problem is access to freebsd/sparc64, and -- =20 of course -- finding someone sufficiently excited about doing the =20 porting work =3D) -landonf= --Apple-Mail-40-169936232 content-type: application/pgp-signature; x-mac-type=70674453; name=PGP.sig content-description: This is a digitally signed message part content-disposition: inline; filename=PGP.sig content-transfer-encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) iD8DBQFHoj+LlplZCE/15mMRAvMuAJ9+I7m6dI2sOQ63YwAI5Z6VxxmDLQCfYOj7 gMPcWcyH1VSq0S4JFe2WVbg= =L9Ye -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail-40-169936232--
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