JDK GNU/Linux SPARC and MIPS

[Sunil Soman]

There is also the Debian SPARC port:

http://www.debian.org/ports/sparc/

and Gentoo is work in progress & works on most sparcs:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-sparc-faq.xml


But I haven't actually tried to run hotspot on any of these.

Sunil

On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 19:03 -0400, Paul Hohensee - Java SE wrote:
> So I have another question.  What are the available linux OS ports on sparc
> that you can run a linux-sparc jvm on?
> 
> I know a version of ubuntu is available for sparc, including niagara 
> platforms.
> Anything else, maybe just works in progress?  Maybe a big distro like 
> Redhat?
> 
> Paul
> 
> Christian Thalinger wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 22:16 +0200, Sunil Amitkumar Janki wrote:
> >   
> >> I have downloaded the latest OpenJDK source code from the OpenJDK
> >> site and checked out the latest IcedTea repository. I want to get 
> >> Linux/SPARC working first so I would like to know if it's better
> >> to start from Solaris/SPARC or Linux/i586 and if there is a big 
> >> difference between Solaris and Linux support.
> >>     
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > I have some informations that Sun is/was already working on Linux/SPARC.
> > Is that still the case?
> >
> > On the other side, is it a must for you to have HotSpot or could you go
> > with another VM too?  Or is this more of a challenge you want to take...
> >
> > - twisti
> >   
>