Sparc64

[Landon Fuller]

On Feb 1, 2008, at 06:20, Havard Eidnes wrote:

>> What's the status of svr4 emulation on sparc64? I forgot a critical
>> piece; One needs a bootstrap JVM, and bootstrapping off of Sun's VM
>> would make things easier.
>
> One can use a bootstrap JVM from another host (and architecture) and
> some scripts which use ssh to the bootstrap host and sharing files via
> NFS -- that's how I bootstrapped the NetBSD/amd64 version using the
> NetBSD/i386 version.  I've attached my notes and the scripts I used to
> do this.  (Admittedly, I've since tweaked the scripts to use
> environment variables, so they've not been tested in their present
> form...)
>
> Best regards,
>
> - Håvard

That's super useful, thanks! If you don't mind, I'm also going to  
forward your e-mail along to the OpenJDK Porters group, as it's  
pretty handy thing to have on record.

-landonf
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