Jep! The 770's ARM variant does indeed support Java acceleration
through Jazelle technology. However, through their infinite wisdom
ARM has chosen to keep the Jazelle-part of the processors programming
model a secret for anybody else than their licensee. This in reality
rules out any open-source implementation of a Jazelle-enabled JVM's
(unless somebody will take up the challenge of reverse-engineer
Jazelle) , which means that we can only hope that Nokia will port
one of their Jazelle-enabled JVM's to the 770. I must confessed that
I have been *really* annoyed by ARM's attitude on this subject for a
long time and fails to see the rational behind. Imagine a manufacture
releasing a new processor while keeping the instruction set
specification a secret!
/Jesper
On 19/01/2006, at 10.00, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I've seen some
emails on this list from people with @nokia.com addresses.
I've read the archives, and so far don't see anything conclusive
with regards to a working java implementation J2ME or J2SE.
I noticed a post in the archives about this output from /proc/cpuinfo
Processor : ARM926EJ-Sid(wb) rev 3 (v5l)
BogoMIPS : 125.03
Features : swp half thumb fastmult edsp java
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 5TEJ
CPU variant : 0x0
CPU part : 0x926
CPU revision : 3
Cache type : write-back
Cache clean : cp15 c7 ops
Cache lockdown : format C
Cache format : Harvard
I size : 32768
I assoc : 4
I line length : 32
I sets : 256
D size : 16384
D assoc : 4
D line length : 32
D sets : 128
Hardware : Generic OMAP1510/1610/1710
Revision : 17100016
Serial : 033302008b5f702f
Does the Features line mean the 770's ARM chip has the potential
for hardware acceleration for java?
If that's the case is Nokia working on a JVM for the device? I like
writing applications more than hacking at JVMs, so I don't want to
spend too much time doing hildon specific bindings or trying to get
a slim enough version of gnuclasspath and kaffe/gcj/jamvm working
efficiently.
Thanks,
Luis
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