Greg Tassone wrote:

>On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 10:01 -0400, Joshua Nichols wrote:
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>>David Highley wrote:
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>>But what you're asking about here... I think it's more something you'd
>>have to talk to Sun about.
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>>I'm not sure if you're aware, but IBM does have a JDK available on the
>>PPC. Would that suffice?
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>Just FYI:  Sun *does* have a binary release for an embedded PPC runtime.
>I left the details out because I interpreted David's remarks as "why
>aren't we providing a package for it in Portage" question.
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>In case you're interested in the details you can find them here:
>http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/embedded/index.jsp
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>And here (see the news item for April, 2006):
>http://java.sun.com/j2se/embedded/survey.html?download=ppc
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>Greg
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The Sun PPC port is a royalty version, blackdown who have an older 
sub-licensed ppc port asked if they could have access to the ppc hotspot 
code but nothing so far has happened. Also Apple have a PPC hotspot jvm 
port, again the code for that is under lock and key. Once you have the 
jvm running you are home and dry. Last time I looked IBMs ppc jvm you 
have to be registered to get it but they obviously more invested in ppc 
than anyone else

regards
calvin




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