Sparc64

[Landon Fuller]

On Jan 30, 2008, at 14:42, Eirik Øverby wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> an old boring question coming up again...
>
> For various reasons we have some interest in getting Java running  
> on FreeBSD-SPARC64. Also, the sun4v platform is of interest, but  
> currently mostly academic such as the FreeBSD port to sun4v isn't  
> useful at this stage.
>
> We are using FreeBSD on a load of old SUN servers that their owners  
> can't or won't dispose of. Having Java available would make these  
> systems even more useful, and might bring in more business for us.
>
> So, put plainly, what kind of man-hours are we talking about to  
> bring Java 1.5 to fbsd-sparc64?

At first glance, it doesn't look to be more than a couple weeks of  
work (at the high end). Someone on the OpenJDK lists recently asked  
about Linux/Sparc, which would require roughly the same effort  
(implementing os_cpu for bsd_sparc):
	http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2007-September/ 
000138.html
	http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/porters-dev/2008-January/ 
000078.html

> And what kind of money/support/inspiration would be needed to make  
> this a priority?

Seems like the biggest problem is access to freebsd/sparc64, and --  
of course -- finding someone sufficiently excited about doing the  
porting work =)

-landonf
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