Hi, Charles, Chris, Thanks very much for sharing the information. Then I will wait for your patches ;-).
Thanks. Tianwei On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Charles Hardin <ckhar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Chris basically stated where we are... > > I am going to try and just send a big diff pretty soon, so you can > "see" it - but, part of the delivery is breaking down the patches into > consumable pieces on the mailing list... > > Unfortunately, we have been doing this for an R&D project and this is > not our main deliverable - so, apologize for not getting this out > sooner - but, we have to pay the bills with the other work... > > Please hold us to getting some patches out by start of next week, if > you don't here for me or Chris on this list - then feel free to fire > off some emails... > > Thanks, > Charles > > On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Christopher Sabol <csa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I work with Charles. Currently I'm working on a JET port to MIPS. > > > > Since I haven't done any work on DRLVM, it's a learning experience. I've > > taken the approach of stubbing out the port layer routines for MIPS with > > aborts and working through components on an as needed basis. That helps > > with providing the context for how modules are designed to interact. > > > > As far as status: > > > > The required LIL wrappers all seem to compile and I've been able to get > the > > basic ALU and argument passing logic working. > > > > I'm currently working through the class initialization logic. I'm around > the > > org/apache/harmony/nio/FileChannelFactory.getFileChannel during the > > initialization process (That's the first switch statement that gets hit > > during startup). > > > > There is still a lot of work. > > > > My goal was to get to the point that a 'hello world' app with the > standard > > class libraries functions correctly before dropping an initial patch. > > Anything less than that makes it more difficult to figure out what's > going > > on. > > > > However, if there is interest I can send out a current snapshot. > > > > Unfortunately, we have integrated harmony into our cross compile make > system > > which is not feasible to export. So a snapshot in the current form would > > not include the ant makefile updates to compile on MIPS. > > > > -Chris > > > > > > On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Tianwei <tianwei.sh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Hi, Tim, > >> Thanks for the information. Hope Charles will update his status. If he > >> sends the patches into this maillist, > >> we can learn how it works, Furthermore, Hope our project group also can > >> help testing. > >> > >> Thanks. > >> > >> Tianwei > >> > >> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Tim Ellison <t.p.elli...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> > On 07/Nov/2009 03:26, Tianwei wrote: > >> > > We are working on a project which is trying to port Harmony to a > >> MIPS > >> > > like instruction set. I search the mail list, it seems that someone > >> > already > >> > > has done similar work, but I do not know if that porting have been > >> pushed > >> > > into mainline. We now have very little experience in Harmony porting > >> and > >> > > want to learn step by step following other people's work. > >> > > >> > Charles told us that he is working on a MIPS port back in July [1]. > So > >> > far there has been no work contributed into the Harmony project. > >> > > >> > However, I'd be interested to hear how it is going, and as always, > >> > patches and porting discussions are most welcome here. > >> > > >> > [1] http://markmail.org/thread/uabp5qvgu4iiyzvm > >> > > >> > Regards, > >> > Tim > >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Sheng, Tianwei > >> Inst. of High Performance Computing > >> Dept. of Computer Sci. & Tech. > >> Tsinghua Univ. > >> > > > -- Sheng, Tianwei Inst. of High Performance Computing Dept. of Computer Sci. & Tech. Tsinghua Univ.
