Java HotSpot on mips64

[Clemens Eisserer]

Hi,

There's no mips version of hotspot available as open-source.
A proprietary version of 1.4.2 exists as far as I know for embedded use.

- Clemens

2008/10/30 Kauser Jamal <kanwaljamal at hotmail.com>:
>
> Hi,
>
> Jonathan wrote:
>
>> There are no binary plugs for MIPS currently. Here are a couple
>> options:
>>
>> -- Hack out the dependencies. As of b38, only jmx.snmp and jsound are
>> affected, so for your purposes you might be able to get along
>> without them.
>>
>> -- Use the IcedTea workarounds [http://icedtea.classpath.org/].
>> IcedTea is based on OpenJDK 6 now, so there might be some
>> adaptation needed. Alternately, if you have no particular reason
>> to favor JDK7 over JDK6, you could just switch to OpenJDK 6.
>>
>> Which is best probably depends on your goal in doing the port. What
>> is your objective in getting it working?
>>
>> Beyond the matter of the binary plug, you mention that you want a
>> non-interpreter port. This will require substantial development. I
>> did a MIPS port, but it is interpreter-only so far. Another route is
>> IcedTea, which has a project called Shark that is integrating LLVM as
>> a compiler for OpenJDK. It's still in progress, but a bigger issue is
>> that there is no MIPS version of LLVM (last I heard, probably a year
>> ago).
>>
>> Please do let us know how it goes if you pursue a port to the Octeon!
>
>
> Thanks a lot for the quick and useful reply, Jonathan.
>
> I am developing benchmarks in Java for the measurement of memory, CPU and
> network throughput. That is why I need a good performing JVM, which
> therefore must include the HotSpot engine.
>
> The packages available on Debian (using aptitude) only provide the
> interpreter of the JVM for the mips architecture (as far as I have tried).
> Therefore, I decided to build the JVM from source code.
>
> I have started work on building the IcedTea on the mips system. Let's see
> how it goes. I will inform everyone here about the outcome.
>
> Kauser
>
>
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