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

[From: Luis Montes]

Mathieu Lacage wrote:
> 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
>   
Seems more likely to me that Sun can't give away code that they have 
only licensed from ARM.
As stupid as it may be, Jazelle specifications are proprietary to ARM 
and ARM is probably the one that would object to Sun releasing 
jazelle-related code.
You'd think a hardware manufacturer would want people to be able to 
actually use the hardware they purchase.

If we want Jazelle to work on the 770 it's up to nokia to negotiate with 
ARM. Thus far we have seen very little interest from Nokia in bringing a 
JVM to the 770.

Luis