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| author | Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> | 2012-02-16 09:00:23 +0200 |
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| committer | Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> | 2012-02-16 09:05:51 +0200 |
| commit | 70fea589562edbefe9df28b80cf07757cae9e8a7 (patch) | |
| tree | 6a8a952fad1da30f801462b2e116f21d63830709 | |
| parent | 28e743b56baf43b1a4974f0aff3a5f34b69f7def (diff) | |
| download | jato-70fea589562edbefe9df28b80cf07757cae9e8a7.tar.gz | |
TODO: Update ARM status
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | TODO | 26 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -136,6 +136,28 @@ Required skills:: Difficulty:: Medium +ARM +--- +ARMv5 support +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +The JIT compiler has preliminary support for ARMv5 but there's still more work +to be done to support the full JVM instruction set. + +Required skills:: + C, ARM +Difficulty:: + Hard + +Thumb2 support +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +The Thumb2 instruction set on ARM is more compact than the 32-bit ARM +instruction set which is important for embedded devices. + +Required skills:: + C, ARM +Difficulty:: + Hard + Portability ----------- [quote, Jim McCarthy] @@ -145,9 +167,7 @@ ____ Machine Architectures ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Jato currently runs on IA-32 and AMD64 machine architectures but there are -other important architectures out there (e.g. ARM and PowerPC) that we want to -support. To port the VM to a new architecture, you need to introduce a new +To port the VM to a new architecture, you need to introduce a new 'arch/<target>' directory that implements the following machine architecture specific parts: |