From owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 31 22:09:03 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16C9916A468 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:09:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from landonf@bikemonkey.org) Received: from secure.bikemonkey.org (bluefish.bikemonkey.org [69.80.211.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FA8513C467 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:09:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from landonf@bikemonkey.org) Received: from [192.168.54.11] (unknown [192.168.54.11]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by secure.bikemonkey.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE7AA1703B; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:37:15 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1A554062-5E54-4914-BC8A-AAD580D6EC27@anduin.net> References: <1A554062-5E54-4914-BC8A-AAD580D6EC27@anduin.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753) Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Apple-Mail-40-169936232" Message-Id: <6643EEC4-3DEE-479D-9EA1-F907CB31B345@bikemonkey.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Landon Fuller Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:37:15 -0800 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Eirik_=D8verby?= X-Pgp-Agent: GPGMail 1.1.2 (Tiger) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753) Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sparc64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-java@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting Java to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:09:03 -0000 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--