[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Java on the 770

[From: Mathieu Lacage]

On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 09:47 +0100, Jesper Zuschlag wrote:
> Unfortunately it doesn't seems so as the Jazelle-related code (/src/ 
> vm/cpu/arm/jazelle) has been removed from the PhoneME Feature  
> release. Maybe Sun could be convinced to resolve this issue with ARM  
> as they always points at Sun as being the source to the non- 
> disclosure policy due to some patent issue.
> 
> I find it completely ridiculous to have an undocumented instruction  
> set on a generally available CPU, which I have told ARM at any given  
> occasion. However, they haven't really been ready to see it from that  
> point of view.

>From a business perspective, I suspect that Sun is more interested in
keeping this private as it is a way for them to extract licenses from
the embedded guys and this represents quite a bit of money.

Mathieu
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