Re: Icedtea for Linux_sparc

Awesome!

David Miller wrote:
> From: "Tom \"spot\" Callaway" <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:46:22 -0500
>
>   
>> On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 10:12 -0500, Scot P. Floess wrote:
>>     
>>> Not sure as icedtea took care of whatever downloads it required...
>>> The only requirement I saw was the latest RH gcj with generics
>>> extension...  When  I installed this under Fedora 7 - its just
>>> downloaded and built everything it needed.
>>>       
>> I looked into this, and there is definitely missing code.
>>
>> Everything in openjdk/hotspot/src/os_cpu/linux_sparc/vm/* would need to
>> be written. I don't know SPARC asm, so I can't do this work.
>>
>> (CCing sparclinux@vger, in the hopes that someone there might be
>> interested in writing this code)
>>     
>
> I'll see if I can devote some cycles to this when I get back from
> my trip to Korea.
>
> I had looked briefly at this earlier and I have a decent idea of
> what's involved, in fact the most difficult part is getting a
> build going, the number of dependencies is just rediculious.
>
>
>   

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