Thanks Goetz - I will get some of the team to compare your changes with what we've done to make the IBM port to AIX,. However, a wander through your changes so far suggests that you've already addressed all the same sort of issues we encountered :-) I'm inclined to suggest that we start the AIX port by using all your changes. since, by definition, they are self constant and designed to work with hotspot. As we work through the changes in more detail ,and as we find problems in execution etc, we can offer up alternatives. Let me think on it and I'll post more tomorrow. On 25 Jun 2012, at 15:12, Lindenmaier, Goetz wrote:
Hi,
I uploaded a webrev with the changes by SAP to the jdk to port it to Aix to http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~goetz/sap_aix_jdk_changes/.
I diffed the source code of our VM and jdk7u3, sorted out the Aix stuff added by us, and applied that to our ppc-aix branch. So this should contain whatever is necessary for an Aix port, but it will not compile. I also assume there are some dependencies to our other changes to the VM which are not included. If there is something important missing, just tell me and I’ll add it if possible.
Most of our changes are marked with a comment ‘// SAPJVM’. We remove these comments in the code we will submit to our port, but here I left them in, as I think it’s better to read that way.
The code should work with xlc8, xlc10, Aix 5.2 and up, and as400/pase.
Best regards, Goetz.