On Sun, 01 Nov 1998 18:26:43 +0900, SHUDOH Kazuyuki wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]("Michael Sinz") wrote:
>
>> >What platform on which does binary distribution of JDK
>> >for linux compiled? Which version of linux kernel?
>
>> On x86 we use the production kernels since most users will
>> be using such kernels. Other platforms may use other
>> kernels.
>
>On other processors, e.g. Alpha, PowerPC and SPARC,
>what version of kernel is used generally?
>What platform on which does binary distribution compiled?
The PowerPC group tends to use a relatively new 2.1.x (2.1.100+)
kernel. There are some fixes that are in the kernels and the
glibc that are needed there.
I don't know about Sparc but I would guess that it is RedHat
based given the RedHat support for the Sparc.
The Alpha work I will be doing will be stable kernel based as much
as possible (such as 2.0.35, which is what I am currently running)
The base system started out as a RedHat 5.0 distribution but has
been updated with many things since then.
The JDK 1.1.7 v1a release was compiled for glibc on a 2.0.35 kernel
with RedHat 5.0 (plus lots of updates) The libc5 was build on a
rather generic SuSE 5.2 distribution with only minor upgrades.
Michael Sinz -- Director of Research & Development, NextBus Inc.
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --------- http://www.nextbus.com
My place on the web ---> http://www.users.fast.net/~michael_sinz
