DRAFT PROPOSAL: Porting the HotSpot VM to Haiku x86

[Stephen Colebourne]

No, there is still 8 hours to go
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=224
Stephen

Clemens Eisserer wrote:
> Hi Bryan,
> 
> Although I think the Haiku port of OpenJDK would be a perfect fit for
> the challenge, I fear that the proposal stage is already over (March
> 2, 2008 at 11:59 P.M. (PST)).
> I've maybe understood something wrong (I had to search quite a bit
> arround to get the delta of UTC-1 and PST), maybe you have luck and
> its accepted  - or I am completly wrong with timezone calculation ...
> 
> lg Clemens
> 
> 2008/3/2, Bryan Varner <bryan at varnernet.com>:
>> 1.) Introduction
>>  The OpenJDK porters group is sponsoring a project to port OpenJDK to
>>  the Haiku Operating System. Obviously, to achieve our projects goals,
>>  we must port the HotSpot VM to our platform. As this is a sizeable
>>  amount of work for any team, we are proposing this project to help
>>  provide additional incentive to our team members, and bolster the
>>  fervor of development.
>>
>>  The goals of this project are to port the HotSpot Client and Server
>>  Virtual Machines to Haiku for the x86 processor architecture.
>>
>>  This project proposal meets the following criterion for project types
>>  as outlined by Offical Rules of the OpenJDK Community Innovators'
>>  Challenge in section 3.F.
>>          1.) Develops and implements ... that extend the applicability
>>              or use of the JavaSE platform into new markets...
>>
>>          3.) Ports the OpenJDK code base to a new and interesting OS
>>              and/or hardware architecture.
>>
>>  2.) Deliverables
>>  This project will be considered complete with delivery of
>>          a) A working build system that others outside of the porting
>>             effort can easily duplicate. Artifacts may be generated
>>             from directly within Haiku OS using a native tool-chain, or
>>             cross-compiled from a host OS.
>>          b) All source modifications published to the OpenJDK
>>             Haiku Port project.
>>          c) Resulting artifacts including both client and server
>>             versions of the HotSpot VM. JIT will be enabled, and
>>             execution of the 'java -version' command will result in
>>             expected (no exceptions, no errors) behavior.
>>
>>  3.) Milestones
>>  To acheive these goals, the following basic porting tasks will need to
>>  be accomplished.
>>          a) Creating a sane build environment suitable for compiling
>>             OpenJDK for Haiku x86.
>>          b) Builiding out the initial project structure.
>>          c) Creation of Haiku specific code.
>>          d) Native implementations for many core JavaSE classes.
>>          e) Initialization of the "Universe".
>>
>>  3.) Dependencies on Sun
>>  There are no dependencies on Sun regarding the porting of OpenJDK to
>>  the Haiku OS.
>>
>>
>>  4.) Relevance to the Community
>>  Haiku is an emerging, moderm Operating System targeted specifically
>>  for desktop computing. It's unique approach to system design, which
>>  impacts application scalability, threading performance, and it's tight
>>  focus on desktop computing gives it a promising future in a world that
>>  is increasingly using SMP to acheive better performance.
>>
>>  Having OpenJDK and more specifically the HotSpot VM ported to Haiku
>>  will provide an attractive alternative environment for Java developers
>>  to work in and target, as well as place OpenJDK one step closer to
>>  acheiving the goal of platform ubiquity.
>>
>