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On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 08:16 +0100, Alex Buell wrote: |
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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 is a java machine, not a compiler. |
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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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Interesting. Do you think it would be easier to port from linux intel |
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than from solaris/sparc? That might make a lot of sense. |
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(Depending on how much assembly code there is, and whether anyone can |
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read it. How much is needed outside, perhaps, the atomic operations |
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like atomic_add or test_and_set?) |
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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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> -- |
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> http://www.munted.org.uk |
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> Fearsome grindings. |
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Thanks and regards, |
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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o> |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc) |