Re: [kvm-ia64-devel] FW: Follow up - IA64 uses Open Guest Firmware

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Quoting "Daniel P. Berrange" <ber...@re...>:
> Can you clarify just what parts involve Java. Is it just the build system
> which is java based, or is part of the firmware itself coming from java
> source too ?

Only the build system is java based.

> I'm wondering whether it would be feasible to try building with GCJ instead
> of the Sun/IBM/BEA  JDKs. If only the build system used java this may be
> a viable option.

Not sure.  Several java components involved (such as Ant) were known *not*
to work with gcj.  But now that GCJ is ecj based (maybe not in RHEL5), this
may have changed.

> > Do you do this for xen x86 ?
>
> For x86, the  HVM firmware source code is just part of the regular xen
> released tar.gz and built as part of the userspace build process of Xen.

Right.  I missed that.

Tristan.