Hi, You might want to check out the dev list at YellowDogLinux.
it seems by IBM decided to NOT allow its JIT to run with G4 and other non-IBM processors. There was a bit of a storm (i.e. I complained loudly and so did others on that list and on the IBM java newsgroup). I then had to recompile my kernel to report I was using a 604e in /proc/cpuinfo and I was able to trick JIT into working. They said it was all a "mistake" and would fix it in the next release (AFAIK - that has not come yet). Later on someone pointed out an environement variable you can set to override the processor detection code in the JIT. ---snip--- There is a workaround, which is to set the following environment variable: export JITC_PROCESSOR_TYPE= 6 which will force the 604 class cpu code to be employed. ---snip--- If you are interested in the whole sordid tale check out: The thread starts here: http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-devel/2003-June/000209.html The environment variable workaround is here: http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-devel/2003-July/000251.html Hope this helps, Kevin On Tuesday 02 September 2003 05:41, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 04:44, W. Crowshaw wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Has anybody managed to get IBM's Java 1.4.1 (sadly, > > the only one available to us ppc'ers) working with > > the JIT its supplies. Its readme docs say that all > > you need to do is set the JAVA_COMPILER enviromental > > variable to: jitc. To test the docs say simply type: > > java -version and it will say "(JIT enabled: jitc)" > > Unfortunately, this doesn't work. I have to have > > the gij-3.0 package installed instead and the > > JAVA_COMPILER=NONE set for java to run at all. > > I'm getting JVM crashes when trying to use the JIT too > > Ben.
