Re: [Sablevm-developer] Status question(s)

[Grzegorz P. <gr...@se...>]

W li=B6cie z pi=B1, 11-10-2002, godz. 21:52, Mark Wielaard pisze:=20
> Hi,
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> On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 21:43, Grzegorz Prokopski wrote:
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> > Questions:
> > What stops us from getting PowerPC port ready?
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> The patches that I posted get "Hello World" working.
> See
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=3D983089&forum_id=
=3D4154
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=3D1006086&forum_id=
=3D4154
> But there are probably some other endian issues.
It seems that conversation dried up in "Another small step on powerpc"
thread. No final conclusion was made AFAICS.
However if you got Hello Word working what other problems arosed
(with bigger apps I suppose). Do you have any output of such problem?
(I mean things that work w/ SableVM on i386 but not powerpc).

> I have not have the time check what does and what does not work since I
> am a bit busy at the moment. But now that Hello World works someone with
> some more PowerPC or endian knowledge should get most of SableVM
> working.
Huh - so you say we're having endianness problems w/ SableVM?
Hmm.. it seems that all - i386, alpha, ia64 have same endianness.
It is interesting how SableVM will work on new platforms after we add
auto-configure on Linux platforms.

> If you have time it would be interesting how much of the Mauve test
> suite you can get working on the different platforms.
> See http://source.redhat.com/mauve/.
Yes, I have just ITP:ed this test.

After we have SableVM compiled on all arches - we'll have to ask
users (or rather debian developers) to test it. So it'll be needed
to have mauve test around in packaged form.

Thanks for the pointer and all your effort

				Grzegorz B. Prokopski