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Date:      Thu, 11 Mar 1999 18:48:42 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        <J_Shevland@TurnAround.com.au>
Cc:        "Nate Williams" <nate@mt.sri.com>, "kevin.v" <kevin.v@odyssey.on.ca>, <freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: jdk1.2
Message-ID:  <199903120148.SAA17757@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <001601be6b5f$9573ec20$6e01a8c0@tasshev.turnaround.com.au>
References:  <199903110133.SAA12371@mt.sri.com> <001601be6b5f$9573ec20$6e01a8c0@tasshev.turnaround.com.au>

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> Instead of everyone going from scratch, can we use the Linux sources as a
> better starting point than the Solaris reference ones?

The linux sources aren't released yet, but hopefully they will help with
the porting effort.

> How are people's impressions of the source code so far? Unfortunately my
> efforts are a combination of learning the FBSD kernel and also the JDK
> source so I'm going pretty slooow.

You shouldn't need to know anything about the BSD kernel to do the JDK
port, although you do need to get chummy with the linker. :(


Nate


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