Project Proposal: PowerPC/AIX port

[Volker Simonis]

Hi Henri,

we have limited resources and as outlined in the proposal, we will focus on
Linux/PowerPC64 and AIX. In  particular, the PowerPC port of HotSpot
will be 64-bit
only simply because this is what we currently have.

However this is an Open Source project and anybody willing to
contribute may join the project.

I think one particularly good point in time to join the project would
be when we have
the interpreter-only version of HotSpot running on Linux/PPC64. I
suppose it should be
not to hard for an OS/X expert to merge the processor specific part
with the OS/X
OS part from the current Mac OS X port.

By the way, does OS/X only support 32-bit or both 32- and 64-bit?

Regards,
Volker


On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Henri Gomez <henri.gomez at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The "VM interface" part of the project will be mainly a playground for our
>> IBM colleagues as they have a natural interest to interface the OpenJDK
>> class library with their alternative VM implementation. We as SAP are interested
>> in this topic because it may help us to more easily support old Java releases
>> with newer VM versions.
>
> There is another platform where PPC support on OpenJDK 7/8 is highly
> awaited, OS/X.
>
> Could it be part of the platforms scope ?
>
> There is many people around willing to provide support on it.