porting OpenJDK

[Matthias Klose]

On 08.04.2010 22:30, Jonathan Springer wrote:
> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> [trim]
>> Zero is upstream in OpenJDK7 b76 on and will be in OpenJDK6 b19. Note
>> that Zero is only an interpreter. It's enough to get a Java
>> environment running, but for decent performance, you'll need to look
>> at a JIT either via Shark (an LLVM-based JIT started by Gary Benson)
>> or your own MIPS-specific solution.

any mips patches are in the icedtea6 repositories. I didn't track openjdk or 
icedtea.

> If you do care about performance, or just feel like hacking asm, there
> also exists a Linux MIPS port of the OpenJDK template interpreter.
> It's mipsel, as I believe the PS2 is, although it was written to
> MIPS64, so there might be some instructions used that are not in MIPS
> III/IV. It is available at https://www.reservoir.com/ultraviolet

this is great news. debian-mips, any volunteer to bring this into icedtea6?

   Matthias