HotSpot Porting on MIPS - BootStrap Loader

[Sunil Amitkumar Janki]

On Jan 3, 2008 4:09 PM, Pratik Patel <pratik.patel at einfochips.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> One more question on HotSpot porting on MIPS.
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> Hotspot FAQ ( http://openjdk.java.net/groups/hotspot/faq.html ) mentions
> that to build HotSpot , bootstrap JDK and a JDK source is required. I was
> able to compile hotspot with JDK-1.5.0 as Bootstrap JDK on my Linux system.
> Bootstrap JDK ( jdk-6u10-ea-bin-b09-linux-i586-19_dec_2007.bin ) is
> available in .bin format for Linux system. Now if I want bootstrap jdk for
> MIPS, than from where can I get bootstrap or I have to develop it from
> scratch.
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> Thanks
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> Pratik Patel
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Hi,

I think all that's necessary is ecj (Eclipse compiler for Java), which is
available from the Debian repositories. Then you can bootstrap an
(older) IcedTea build, since newer builds require an installed IcedTea.

I actually have a Debian mipsel chroot on my system and will try to see
how well that works for bootstrapping an IcedTea build. I still think much
missing functionality will have to be supplied, though.

Regards,
Sunil