[Sablevm-developer] ARM, S390 ready, m68k expected on monday - FYI: status

[Grzegorz B. P. <ga...@de...>]

Hi!

I won't be posting my patches yet, but I'd just like to say that
I already have SableVM working on s390 architecture (build by
an autobuilders a few days ago) and arm (build today by me).

The m68k version should be build by tomorrow - it has been just moved
to the next-to-be-built position in the queue of the fastest available
m68k autobuilder [0]. I expect success here also.

The test ran is simple "HelloWorld" for now which is being run as a
part of package build process (and if running it fails - whole build
fails and package is not created nor uploaded).

I have accumulated quite a lot of arch-specific changes in my tree so
I'd really like to have them all in 1.0.9 as soon as they're proved
to be working. There are also some cosmetic changes, like sorting
the arch-specific stuff alphabetically by arch symbol.

Unfortunatelly it seems that for now we'll be stuck with 8 debian arches
for some time because libffi is not available on the remaining 2
(or some say 3) arches: hppa, mips and mipsel. The arch-specific parts
of SableVM for mips and mipsel are ready [1].
Hppa will require some more investigation to find out the needed
assembler parts but it doesn't make much sense to start the effort
before we have libffi for hppa.

I think that the next step will be testing inlined-threading on
non-x86 which, as Etienne experienced, won't be *that* plain easy
as it seemed in the beginning.

Gotta hand-upload the arm version. Will keep you informed.

Cheers,

					Grzegorz B. Prokopski

PS: It seems that GNU Classlib has never been used on s390 yet.
I had to patch endiannes information to include s390 (I hope I won't
forget to send that 4 lines long patch also).

[0] which is currently busy with koffice so it'll take a while :-/
[1] the assembler parts (atomic c&s) for mips and mipsel are untested
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Grzegorz B. Prokopski <ga...@de...>
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