Hi, An aside ... we (ppc Linux) are really too small of a development community and we should really have just one shared development list to get what few of us are still active at least seeing/hearing what the others are doing.
Kevin On Tuesday 02 September 2003 08:16, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote: > 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/000 >209.html > > > The environment variable workaround is here: > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-devel/2003-July/000 >251.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.
