Re: jdk1.5 and sparc

2006-09-06 Thread Dan Rossi
Stefaan A Eeckels wrote: On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 00:57:22 +1000 Dan Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are you installing Solaris 10 on a SPARC based box? The by now very old Ultra 5 and 10 had a IDE controller that was limited to 128GB, but that applies to all OSes you'd inst

Re: jdk1.5 and sparc

2006-09-05 Thread Dan Rossi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 08:49:43PM +0200, Johan Vos wrote: Hi, I did the port to Linux/SPARC for JDK 1.2, but I don't have a performant Linux/Sparc machine anymore and 1.5 is very different from 1.2. Apart from that, I don't think there is a huge interes

Re: jdk1.5 and sparc

2006-09-04 Thread Dan Rossi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to Jurgen Kreileder, there is one bug left that prevents a release. At this time, no JVM is running on the sparc port because of some changes in the glibc that cause the 1.4.1 (only 1.4 jdm released) to crash on non trivial load. Don't ask me, I don't know h

Re: jdk1.5 and sparc

2006-09-04 Thread Dan Rossi
Klaus Wagner wrote: On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 22:18 +1000, Dan Rossi wrote: Hi, im trying to get answers about this, after reading the 1.5 status http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/java2-status/j2se1.5-status.html it states there is jdk1.5 support for sparc

Re: jdk1.5 and sparc

2006-09-04 Thread Dan Rossi
Stefaan A Eeckels wrote: On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 22:18:07 +1000 Dan Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: my last resort is of course solaris 10. In my experience, on SPARC Solaris 10 is the superior OS. Ok but in terms of admining the upkeep of a developer

jdk1.5 and sparc

2006-09-04 Thread Dan Rossi
Hi, im trying to get answers about this, after reading the 1.5 status http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/java2-status/j2se1.5-status.html it states there is jdk1.5 support for sparc among other platforms. However when i go into all the mirrors i can only see 1.4 available. Im wondering if i