Someone is doing a linux-sparc port! (Paul Hohensee)

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi Wim,

On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 09:06 +0200, Wim Verreycken wrote:
> Could you be as kind as to update me on the status of this? In the
> meantime, did anything change to the policy not to push the
> linux-sparc port to the icedtea repo?

Hotspot sparc as posted by Paul has been added to the icedtea repo by
Matthias back in May, replacing the standard zero based support:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2008-May/001913.html
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6/rev/33a90721ac50

Fixes for sparc32/64 have been added by Dennis and Tom in June:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2008-June/002392.html
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6/rev/931f7730ecf9

It is currently shipping in the various GNU/Linux distros:
http://sparc.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8220
http://packages.debian.org/sid/openjdk-6-jdk

Some background can also be found in this podcast:
http://blogs.sun.com/barton808/entry/dgilmore_on_the_fedora_sparc

Cheers,

Mark