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On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:49:10 +0000, I waved a wand and this message |
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magically appears in front of Ferris McCormick: |
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> > As for there being a lack of a Java VM on sparc, if anyone's |
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> > working on porting Sun's JVM, I can help with testing the builds. |
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> Supposedly, this is very hard to hopeless (according to sun). There |
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> are more promising alternatives, such as jamvm or perhaps cacao. I |
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> have played a bit with jamvm, and I think it could be made to work. |
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> It's mostly a matter of figuring out what order the arguments to a |
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> couple macros which are used for test-and-swap are given, and making |
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> a few memcopy macros work right. I've had it running; just not quite |
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> correctly. |
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I thknk gcj could do the job just as well. It can compile to bytecode. |
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> jamvm (or something like it) would make a very nice project. Sun java |
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> would probably not (I think sun have it on their to-do list, but |
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> considered long-term and difficult). |
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I think it's enormously vital that Sun get off their butts and do |
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something about it - porting the linuxintel version to linuxsparc |
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should work. I've actually dug around in the jvm sources and they do |
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have some assembly in various places. These would have to be rewritten |
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for the sparc platform. |
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> If you want to be an AT, please set it up with jmbsvicetto or with me; |
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> it's mostly a matter of getting you through the ebuild quiz. |
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Thanks |
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Alex |
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http://www.munted.org.uk |
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Fearsome grindings. |
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