hotspot linux-sparc support has been pushed

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Friday 25 April 2008, Paul Hohensee wrote:

Thanks for getting this out there.

>
> The code is provided as-is and is totally unsupported by Sun.  It'd be
> really
> great if someone would step up and propose a project to maintain the port.
> If enough users are willing to pay $ for support, Sun might eventually
> decide
> to support it.
>
> The hotspot team will maintain the linux-sparc specific code on a best
> efforts basis, which, because os_cpu code mutates very slowly, means
> it'll bit-rot very slowly.  I at least will try to build it every few
> months.
> We'll be really happy to accept contributions and will sponser them if
> needed.  Same applies to the rest of the linux-sparc specific openjdk code,
> though the vast majority of that is in the makefiles and also doesn't
> change all that rapidly (one hopes :) ).

Im working to integrate it into fedora's openjdk builds.  We currently have 
gcc-4.3.0 to build it,  the build server is  a T1000 
uname -a Linux daedalus.ausil.us 2.6.21-1.3149.al3.14smp #1 SMP Wed Aug 29 
14:06:19 EDT 2007 sparc64 sparc64 sparc64 GNU/Linux

i also have a 2.6.25 kernel i can test.  When i get the T2000 next week it 
will be running Fedora 9 with a 2.6.25 kernel.  With secondary architectures 
for Fedora we will be building everytime fedora builds a new jdk.

One of the most requested features for Aurora SPARC Linux is a working java.  
Not sure if that means there is a market for it.  but i think that it will 
get decent testing.

Again thanks for releasing the code.

Dennis
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