Blackdown Java-Linux Porting Team member Kevin Hendricks posted the
announcement today about the availability of a pre-release version
of Java 2 (aka JDK 1.2) for PPC Linux:
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Announcing Pre-Release version 1 of Sun's JDK 1.2 (Java 2) for
Linux on PowerPC from the Blackdown JDK porting team!
This is a *pre-release* version of JDK 1.2
- passed all non-interactive JCK tests for compiler, runtime-vm,
and runtime lang (the remaining tests have not been run yet).
- both green (very stable) and native threads (beta at best)
- green threads is the default. to force either threads type
use: java -green XXXXXX or java -native XXXXX
- for glibc 1.99 (DR3, R4, R4.1) (No R5 glibc 2.1 version yet)
- NO Metrowerks JIT (Just-in-Time) compiler is available *yet*
(jit interface changed significantly from JDK 1.1.7 to JDK 1.2)
- This port is statically linked with Motif 2.1.
- This port was developed under a sepcial Sun's license
agreement with Blackdown via Steve Byrne (Thank you Steve!)
Please note:
All of the development and testing was done using Paul Mackerras's
Linux-PMac 2.2.1 kernel with Gary Thomas's latest glibc 1.99 (1o)
installed over DR3/R4 user space.
The home website is still:
http://business.tyler.wm.edu/mklinux
but Apple via Gilbert Coville has graciously provided a mirror site for all
of the files needed for the JDK to run on LinuxPPC / MkLinux
ftp://ftp.mklinux.apple.com/pub/contrib/JDK/
I hope you enjoy the numerous improvements available in JDK 1.2
Thanks,
Kevin Hendricks
...with a special thanks to the other Blackdown Porting Team members:
Steve Byrne, Juergen Kreileder, Johan Vos, Anand Palaniswamy,
David Connelly, Karl Asha, Kars de Jong, Scott Hutinger, Michael Sinz, and
Brad Crochet; and to Kevin Buettner for doing the initial JDK 1.1 porting
work to PowerPC.
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