| Summary: | jamvm builds and runs fine under mips (be) | ||
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| Product: | buildroot | Reporter: | Alexander Clouter <alex+buildroot> |
| Component: | Other | Assignee: | unassigned |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | enhancement | CC: | buildroot |
| Priority: | P5 | ||
| Version: | 2014.02 | ||
| Target Milestone: | 2014.11 | ||
| Hardware: | PC | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Host: | Target: | ||
| Build: | |||
| Attachments: | patch to buildroot to allow mips(be) build of jamvm | ||
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Description
Alexander Clouter
2014-04-01 09:09:56 UTC
Hi Alexander, Thanks for your patch. Do you mind sending it to the buildroot mailing list as a proper patch, including your Signed-off-by line ? This would give you the proper credit for investigating this issue. Have a look at this section in the manual for a description on how to send patches: http://buildroot.uclibc.org/downloads/manual/manual.html#submitting-patches Thanks a lot! Thomas It seems that a development tree of jamvm is available containing mips(be) support already. This tree is supposed to become version 1.6.0 of jamvm, but it seems that no release has been made for a long time now. See the tree at http://developer.berlios.de/git/?group_id=6545 One solution would be to accept Alexander's patch as is, the other one being to switch to a git revision. In the mean time I will contact the jamvm team with request for an update on 1.6.0. Feedback from jamvm main developer: "In the past JamVM only worked with GNU Classpath, and I made regular releases to tie in with that. However, since 2010, JamVM development has mainly focused on OpenJDK support. The IcedTea project (which packages JamVM and OpenJDK) does not rely on releases as they periodically take a snapshot from git. "Having said that, I have since discovered that IcedTea would also prefer to work with "official" releases. So I do want to go back to a release model. I have just finished OpenJDK 8 support so now seems a good time to do a release. There have also been many bugs fixed, and tightening of standards compliancy which will also affect GNU Classpath. However, before I do a release I have to test with Mauve (GNU Classpath test suite). I mostly run with OpenJDK now, so I need to ensure that the OpenJDK work hasn't broken anything with GNU Classpath. My intention was to do this over the weekend, so hopefully if no problems show up there should be a new release in a couple of days." Feedback from Robert Lougher: new jamvm to be released hopefully this weekend. As I guess this is too short for 2014.05, I'm moving the milestone to 2014.08. JamVM 2.0.0 has been silently released end of July. Announcement hidden in a blog post: http://draenog.blogspot.be/2014/08/jamvm-200-released.html This release should include the MIPS support as requested by the bug report. As part of the 2014.11 release cycle, we should update JamVM in buildroot, then this bug can be closed. |