[kaffe] avr32 port

[Nevo]

hi,Guennadi:
 
Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> On Thu, 8 May 2008, Nevo wrote:
>
>   
>>    There has been a crazy idea for me to  embed kaffe VM or phoneme CDC vm to
>> Linux kernel as a separate module to speed up vm execution,so vm can directly
>> access hardware. But you know,that should break up the role of JVM as a
>> sandbox...... and we chould not prove the feasibility yet...
>>     
>
> Yeah, don't think the kernel crowd would be particularly inspired by this 
> idea:-)
>   
   Maybe Java OS might be more specific and practical :) . Anyway ,it is 
on my ToDO list.
>   
>>    Now I saw your idea, I guess you mean JIT on AVR32 ?
>>     
>
> Well, in "Java Technical Reference" from Atmel they call it "Java 
> Extension Module (JEM)".
>   
   if you wanna do hardware acceleration ,we could consider libJIT which 
is mentioned Kaffe document.
 
>   
>> I've been as a JVM developer for mobile & CE devices. Maybe I would be 
>> glad to help you make you do a port to AVR32 ,but I am in China,the AVR 
>> board might not be easy to find in public market ..
>>     
>
> That sounds very good! Now, after I've written my first email to the 
> kaffee ML, I found JamVM, which is smaller, and is already ported to 
> AVR32! In pure software mode, of course. So, I think, we could start with 
> that one. If you prefer kaffee, you are certainly most welcome to try to 
> port it over too! We anyway have ti first get it run in software mode, 
> before implementing hardware acceleration.
>   
    Yep,both Kaffe and JamVM are good thing to learn. What kind of 
applications would you want to run on  AVR32? On low-end devices,enable 
JIT would be expensive.
    Now that JamVM is working on AVR32,maybe we need some benchmark or 
something.
    I have said that I would be glad and interested to help a fresh port 
on AVR32 ,so i think  JamVM would be fine..:)
> As for the hardware - as I said, as soon as I get the board, I can provide 
> an ssh login to it to you or any other interester parties. I could even 
> provide a serial console, if that will be needed too. I think, this should 
> be enough for the beginning.
>   
  That would be great....  There should be many experts here.....:)
> Thanks
> Guennadi
> ---
> Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D.
> Freelance Open-Source Software Developer
>
>   

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