On 3 Aug 2012, at 18:11, Volker Simonis <volker.simonis@gmail.com> wrote:
As of now, the project has reached its first milestone. An interpreter-only version of the PowerPC port is available on Linux/PPC64. It successfully runs the JVM98 benchmark and is able to bootstrap itself.
There's a transitional ppc-aix-port project page available (http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~simonis/ppc-aix-port/index.html) which contains the nightly build logs of our project repositories on various platforms (more to come) and a compiled version of the OpenJDK for Linux/PPC64 which can be used as a bootstrap JDK during the build process.
The next steps will be to complete the build on AIX (currently only the HotSpot build is working on AIX), submit some of the shared code changes for the C++-Interpreter upstream and start the integration of the C2 server JIT compiler.
Please notice that in August some of the project members (including me:) will be in holiday, so don't expect much to happen (at least not for the HotSpot port).
Regards, Volker
I went looking for a suitable word to help express my delight at this news. My first thought was "wahoo" but it turns out [1] its not what I thought :-) So - congratulations on this great news and have a good vacation. We'll try not to break the builds too much while you're out! [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahoo