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Re: [Q]IBM's Java 1.4.1 with IBM's JIT



Great Kevin!  Thanks.  The export line really did the
trick.  Can't wait to see if freenet and jedit run
better!

William


--- "Kevin B. Hendricks"
<kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> You might want to check out the dev list at
> YellowDogLinux.
> 
> it seems by IBM decided to NOT allow its JIT to run
> with G4 and other non-IBM 
> processors.
> 
> There was a bit of a storm (i.e. I complained loudly
> and so did others on that 
> list and on the IBM java newsgroup).  I then had to
> recompile my kernel to 
> report I was using a 604e in /proc/cpuinfo and I was
> able to trick JIT into 
> working.  
> 
> They said it was all a "mistake" and would fix it in
> the next release (AFAIK - 
> that has not come yet).
> 
> Later on someone pointed out an environement
> variable you can set to override 
> the processor detection code in the JIT.
> 
> ---snip---
> There is a workaround, which is to set the following
> environment
> variable:
> 
> export JITC_PROCESSOR_TYPE= 6
> 
> which will force the 604 class cpu code to be
> employed.
> ---snip---
> 
> If you are interested in the whole sordid tale check
> out:
> 
> The thread starts here:
>
http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-devel/2003-June/000209.html
> 
> 
> The environment variable workaround is here:
>
http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-devel/2003-July/000251.html
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Kevin
> 
> On Tuesday 02 September 2003 05:41, Benjamin
> Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 04:44, W. Crowshaw wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Has anybody managed to get IBM's Java 1.4.1
> (sadly,
> > > the only one available to us ppc'ers) working
> with
> > > the JIT its supplies.  Its readme docs say that
> all
> > > you need to do is set the JAVA_COMPILER
> enviromental
> > > variable to: jitc.  To test the docs say simply
> type:
> > > java -version and it will say "(JIT enabled:
> jitc)"
> > > Unfortunately, this doesn't work.  I have to
> have
> > > the gij-3.0 package installed instead and the
> > > JAVA_COMPILER=NONE set for java to run at all.
> >
> > I'm getting JVM crashes when trying to use the JIT
> too
> >
> > Ben.
> 
> 
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