Support for Netscape/Mozilla plug-in on Linux AMD64 native platform

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Kurt Miller wrote:
> On Monday 29 October 2007 8:51:11 am Massimo Perga wrote:
>   
>> Hello All,
>>   I'm writing here to know what's the best process to follow in order to
>> have more informations on such a plug-in. I'm not requesting it... rather,
>> I'm *offering* to port the current 32-bit Linux version to a native 64-bit
>> version. To accomplish this task, which is the project that takes care of
>> such a plug-in ? Otherwise, have I to request a new project ?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Regards,
>>   Max
>>     
>
> Myself and Jung-uk Kim have completed making the plugin 64-bit
> clean for the 1.6 JRL licensed plugin. You can find our work in patchset
> 2 for BSD:
>
> http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/JDK16JRLConfirm.html
>   
On an unrelated note, would it make sense to create infrastructure for
the porting projects inside OpenJDK? I am wondering if we shouldn't
create an official 'porters' group, with projects for ports to *BSD, etc.

While Sun may not be interested in merging in all such ports into the
main OpenJDK tree, it could be useful to have the patch sets maintained
centrally as part of the OpenJDK infrastructure. The distributed mercurial
setup could give us that liberty, I think.

cheers,
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