On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 11:39, jmt wrote: > Hi, > I'm not really new to java, but not very experienced ; but very new to sparc ! > > So my question is : > > Which package for a sparc64 ? Sun has released j2sdk1.4, but binaries for > i386 only. Is there (will there be) a specific port to sparc ?
chances are no IMO. they will not want to undermine Solaris on sparc. but I do not work for Sun, so who knows. > Is the > j2sdk1.3.0 I downloaded use the 64 bits feature of the sparc processor ? I did not think sun released a version of 1.3 for sparc/linux...that would be news to me. you /may/ be able to get the solaris version working on linux using the solaris ABI support, but I would be very surprised if this ever worked since Sun has put hooks into Solaris using sys_sun to get java to run well and these would need to be reverse engineered to figure out what is going on...in other words, much much pain. if these hooks were emulated well, chances are it would perform for shit. on the other hand, Blackdown has a 1.2.2 version for sparc/linux: http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/jdk1.2-status/ but I don't think it is 64bit. of course, there is kaffe, but that is way old and also does not support sparc64. basically, modern jre's for sparc are lacking ATM. -tduffy -- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. -- Thomas Jefferson
