merging BSDPort into jdk mainline

[Mike Swingler]

On Jul 28, 2011, at 3:10 PM, Henri Gomez wrote:

>> It is not the goal of anyone at Apple to support these architectures. I am not in a position to say if anyone at Oracle is interested in doing the work for ancient PPC Macs. If someone in the community would like to put in the effort, I would suggest they speak up now.
> 
> I understand that PowerPC support is no more on Apple goals and I'm
> unsure about Oracle.
> Project Zero is a very good approach to help PPC and ARM users get
> recents OpenJDK on their machine.
> That's why I asked about Zero with OpenJDK 7/8 on mainline.
> 
> There is many OSes around (Linux, BSD, Windows and OS/X) and many
> processors (x86, x86_64, PPC, ARM) so a serious matrix in some cases
> like Linux and BSD where all CPU archs are available. Zero is a
> perfect fit for these OS and even if OpenJDK 7 or 8 are not available
> for PPC under macosx-port, why not having them with bsd-port ?

Someone involved in the BSD-port would have to take on the responsibility of updating and maintaining this code. This is non-zero effort.

> It's still unclear to me where is the glue between Hotspot, CPUs and
> OS and how to build an OpenJDK for an OS/CPU replacing native assembly
> support by Zero.

Are there any active contributors to the Zero project you can ask? I haven't seen any recent work in their repository.

I understand the desire, and I understand the demand, but unless someone wants to volunteer their time (or money to compel someone else's time) I don't see a bright future for it.

Regards,
Mike Swingler
Java Engineering
Apple Inc.