This section attempts to provide some additional information about non-Intel versions of the Blackdown JDK. At this time, Karl Asha has a more complete catalog of the different platforms available at . Help determining which JDK to download is available in section . Last Update

$Id: 06-non-i386.sgml,v 1.1 1998/11/13 02:50:16 stevemw Exp $ What's the Status of the SPARC Port?

On June 16, 1998 provided this summary of the current SPARC effort, which is based at : Starting from JDK 1.1.5, the Intel and SPARC ports are based on the same code. The SPARC-specific issues are separated from the other linux-specific issues. Improvements and bug-fixes in the general source code can be implemented without having to re-implement the SPARC-specific code. As a consequence, most problems and updates on the Intel-JDK also occur on the SPARC-JDK. I try to synchronize as much as possible with Steve's ports -- although licensing problems caused the JDK 1.1.6v1 release for SPARC to be a few days after the Intel-release.

For the differences between static and dynamic linked versions -- of the Motif library --, the same remarks as for the Intel-release hold.

Up to now, there is no port for glibc-systems -- since I don't have a glibc-system. Most likely, this porting will be done in the near future. Johan follows up on 11/09/1998 with this comment: [The] JDK for sparclinux systems currently only exist for libc 5 systems. I am working on a port for glibc, but this will be a jdk 1.2 port. . . . Is there an Alpha Port?

Yes. Please see for more information. Is there a PowerPC Port?

Yes. Please see for more information.