[kaffe] A request for info. on a 64-bit JVM (preferably for AMD) architecture for Linux

[Khawaja, Aziz]

Yes, x86_64 version would be OK, I guess. As fas as jitter is concerned, =
I can find out from our Java development team if they happily like to =
add a jit on the architecture. Is there any documentation about the =
source code and build avalable?

Thank you for your prompt response.

--Aziz



-----Original Message-----
From: Dalibor Topic [mailto:robilad@kaffe.org]
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 5:04 AM
To: Khawaja, Aziz
Cc: kaffe@kaffe.org; Gwenole Beauchesne
Subject: Re: [kaffe] A request for info. on a 64-bit JVM (preferably for
AMD) architecture for Linux


Hi Aziz,

Khawaja, Aziz wrote:
> Hello team,
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> I work for CBOE in Chicago. We are, thesedays, testing JDKs from all =
the vendors for our RedHat 64-bit linux OS. We have an Opteron (AMD64) =
hardware with RedHat AMD64 OS version running. I am looking for a =
beta/production JVM that can run on this hardware in 64-bit mode. Does =
Kaffe have a version (beta/devel/anything) available for me to test?

Kaffe has been ported to x86_64 (or amd64, if you want to call it that=20
way, there seems to be some confusion about the 'right' handle for the=20
arhitecture) by Gwenole Beauchesne from MandrakeSoft.

It should run happily in interpreter mode. It doesn't have a jit yet on=20
that architecture. It would be great, if someone could write take up the =

task of writing a jitter for it/making kaffe's jitters work. I don't=20
know how much work ith would be, as I'm not really familiar with the=20
intel/amd 64 bit architectures.

As we don't distribute binaries, the best way to evaluate kaffe on your=20
platform is to download kaffe 1.1.3 (the latest & greatest development=20
release) sources [1], and build it on your platform. It would be very=20
nice if you could send me build logs & make check results, if you do=20
that, so that I can try fixing compiler warnings ;)

All bug reports are welcome, patches even more so, they should all go to =

this mailing list.

cheers,
dalibor topic