FWIW, I did eventually get the sparc64 port going on FreeBSD using Zero. I still think there are problems on SMP (I ended up compiling a UP kernel) but its good enough on a UP system to bootstrap the build with at least (albeit slowly).
Tarball at http://people.freebsd.org/~glewis/openjdk7-freebsd-8.0-sparc64.tar.gz I'm now keen to fire up my ia64, although I think Christos might have tried it under ia64 already? Maybe my alpha... -- Greg Lewis Email : gle...@eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com Information Technology FreeBSD : gle...@freebsd.org