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[Greg Lewis]

Hi Thomas,

Some extra information on the BSD port

On 6/18/22 10:40 PM, Thomas Stüfe wrote:
> BSD (which?)
> - Greg Lewis, glewis at eyesbeyond.com, https://github.com/battleblow
>
> Notes:
> ? BSD is not actively developed in Mainline, but downstream from older 
> releases, forked via Adopt. See 
> https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/bsd-port-dev/2019-June/003214.html
>
We've switch from Adopt/Temurin to fork directly off of the OpenJDK 
repositories now that those are mastered on GitHub.  E.g. 
https://github.com/battleblow/jdk is a fork of 
https://github.com/openjdk/jdk.

In terms of which BSD, we are well supported on FreeBSD 
(x86/x64/aarch64/ppc64/zero) and OpenBSD (x86/x64/aarch64).  The support 
for NetBSD is mostly there, but they have some separate patches in 
pkgsrc that are required.  FreeBSD supports all versions, whereas 
OpenBSD and NetBSD tend to only focus on LTS releases.

Please also add Kurt Miller, kurt at intricatesoftware.com, as a porter 
there.  He has done a lot of the work on getting/keeping HotSpot working 
on *BSD over the years and oversees OpenBSD support.

regards, Greg