Fwd: Re: Help me to build openjdk on my machine

[Maxim]

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Betreff: 	Re: Help me to build openjdk on my machine
Datum: 	Tue, 12 Jul 2011 22:40:29 +0200
Von: 	Maxim <max_pole at gmx.de>
An: 	Erik Trimble <erik.trimble at oracle.com>



Am 10.07.2011 20:24, schrieb Erik Trimble:
> [snip]
>
> It certainly would be nice for someone to come forward with a port of
> Hotspot to the PPC/Power architecture, as the Freescale stuff (in
> particular) is becoming very popular for embedded work.  Now that IBM
> is part of OpenJDK, maybe they'll be interested?  (who knows)

I could imagine myself to help out on such a port. I had all required
skills for doing that but I need to prioritize due to personal lack of
time. I suppose one need to write and test a bunch of low-level code
regarding to dynamic recompilation which is pain and extremely
time-consuming. Therefore it's a true challenge for a group, not just
for a single person.

What's about existing (proprietary) ports?

@Mike Swingler: Java until version 1.6 runs successfully on PPC. I'm
sure Apple did its own PPC port, didn't it?

Is it possible to release that code as open source or at least make it
available for further development?
A clean-room implementation would be surely a huge waste of
time/reinventing of the wheel in this case...

Best regards
Maxim


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