R: Porting on mipsel/debian

[Luigi De Donà]

>Actually, I _think_ MIPSEL refers to little-endianess MIPS. 
Yes, I mean that !

>I'm personally not aware of a Hotspot port to MIPS within Sun. But, the
source is out there so, if you're 
>feeling brave, give it a go! :-)
I think about GNU Classpath/GCJ, it runs on MIPS... My question is if it
possible to use the OpenJDK's runtime libraries with gcj until someone will
release a OpenJDK complete HotSpot for MIPS... It is that a difficult
effort?

Cheers
Luigi


-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: Tony Printezis [mailto:tony.printezis at sun.com] 
Inviato: lunedì 28 maggio 2007 22.49
A: Peter B. Kessler
Cc: Luigi De Donà; hotspot-dev at openjdk.java.net
Oggetto: Re: Porting on mipsel/debian

On Mon, 28 May 2007, Peter B. Kessler wrote:

Peter,

Actually, I _think_ MIPSEL refers to little-endianess MIPS.

Luigi,

I'm personally not aware of a Hotspot port to MIPS within Sun. But, the
source is out there so, if you're feeling brave, give it a go! :-)

Tony

> Luigi De Donà wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> When will you have ready a JRE runnable on a MIPSEL/DEBIAN host ?
>> 
>> Many Thanks
>> Please let me know
>> Luigi
>
> I'm pretty sure this would be a more appropriate question for the 
> distro-pkg-dev at openjdk.java.net mailing list.  It has almost nothing 
> to do with the HotSpot virtual machine, and almost everything to do 
> with packaging for a particular distro.
>
> 			... peter
>
>

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