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In a previous message (September 5 2000), Tim Wilkinson affirmed that Kaffe had been ported to VxWorks in x86. Has anyone information about how to do it? Kindly César Mataix Professor. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dpto Electrónica. Universidad de Alcalá. Madrid. Spain Mikael Pahmp wrote: > FYI. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mikael Pahmp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 11:13 > To: dev-etrax > Subject: Kaffe JVM for Etrax/CRIS > > Kaffe, a Java Virtual Machine, with support for Etrax/CRIS is now available for >download at http:/developer.axis.com. > > The port relies on some fixes in the CRIS-specific parts of the kernel. These fixes >has been incorporated in the official kernel distribution as of version 2.4.11 and >higher. There is, however other problems with the latest kernel versions which makes >them unsuitable for the devboard. > > Instead we've created a patch for 2.4.10 which incorporates our fixes. The patch and >a mirror of the official 2.4.10 kernel is available here: >http://developer.axis.com/download/linux/. > > Kaffe with the CRIS specifics and a Makefile suitable for the Axis Developer Board >is available here: http://developer.axis.com/download/apps/apps-kaffe-R1_0_0.tgz. You >might also want to install zlib to enable support for java.util.zip. zlib is >available here: http://developer.axis.com/download/libs/lib-zlib-R1_0_1.tgz > > Below is the README file for the Kaffe port. Please note the memory requirements. >The Kaffe source code is a snapshot of the official Kaffe CVS respository as of >October 3, 2001. Kaffe is distributed under the terms of the GPL >(http://www.kaffe.org/FAQ.html#whocan). For more info on Kaffe, please visit >http://www.kaffe.org. > > The Kaffe for CRIS port should be considered a Beta release. It is our intention to >submit the port back to the official Kaffe distribution when it has been tested some >more. > > /MiP > > ---------------------------------- > This is "Kaffe OpenVM" for CRIS. "Kaffe OpenVM", is a complete virtual > machine and class library set which allows the execution of Java code. > > At this time, Kaffe for CRIS, > - only supports the bytecode interpreter; no JIT is supported. > - is only tested with unix-jthreads (not unix-pthreads). > - doesn't support X. > - doesn't install any Java GUI classes (i.e. Klasses.jar doesn't contain > java.awt, java.beans, etc.). > - only supports targets cris-axis-linux-gnu (Linux 2.4, glibc & shared > libraries) and host. > - is built to run from /bin, /lib, etc on the target. > - is tested to run correctly with Linux 2.4.10 and Axis' 2.4.10 patches. > - java.util.zip will only work if libs/zlib is built and installed first. > - will not fit within a 2MB flash product. At least 4MB flash is recommended. > - runs within a 8MB RAM product. 1 MB of Java heap is needed to run any > Java app. > > To build Kaffe for CRIS, do > make cris-axis-linux-gnu > make install > > To build Kaffe for Axis Developer Board LX, > - download and unpack 'libs-zlib-R1_0_1.tgz' into your devboard directory > (optional, needed for java.util.zip to work) > - in the 'makespec' file, add 'libs/zlib' (optional) and 'apps/kaffe' to the > '<subdirs>' section and 'files/lib/romfs_meta.txt -m 0644' at the end. > - create the file 'files/lib/romfs_meta.txt' saying "Include: kaffe" to > make sure Kaffe native libs are included. > - do 'make cris-axis-linux-gnu', 'make install' and 'make images'. > Note that the flash image will not fit within a 2MB flash developer board. You > can however load the kimage into RAM using ktest.
