On 22 Oct 2012, at 18:06, Volker Simonis <volker.simonis@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
as you may have noticed, I've just pushed two changesets:
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/ppc-aix-port/jdk7u/hotspot/rev/1efaab66c81d http://hg.openjdk.java.net/ppc-aix-port/jdk7u/jdk/rev/a06818b39f7c
which enable the VM to run JVM98 and bootstrap itself on AIX.
This is great progress - well done to you and your team.
One bigger part which still doesn't work is AWT/Swing because of some FontConfig issues. I don't think that there are really fundamental problems there, but I just had no time to look into it until now.
If the nightly build will succeed today (still with the IBM J9 bootstrap JDK), I'll change the build to use the newly build version as of tomorrow for bootstrapping. If that will be successful as well, I'll tag the corresponding repository versions as 'ppc-aix-port-b02' and upload a binary of that version for your convenience.
I'm currently also updating the README-ppc.html file with detailed AIX build instructions. The new version should be under the 'ppc-aix-port-b02' tag as well.
At that point I'll kindly ask any interested party to verify our build experience on as many different AIX-platfomrs as possible and to start improving the class library part of the port:)
Ready and waiting Volker :-)
If everything runs smoothly we can then start thinking about syncing with upstream (i.e. with the jdk7u master) which we haven't done for a while now. I'd propose to wait until the current hsx24 downport (and the corresponding class file change) is completed. This will hopefully enable us to use the same HotSpot (from jdk7u) to run both JDK7 and JDK8. Once we've verified that such a scenario is really working, I'd apply for a JDK8 forest to finally satisfy the long-cherished wish of some of the mailing list subscribers:)
Regards, Volker
PS: Goetz is currently heavily working on the C2 JIT compiler port which will be ready for submission soon...