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[Thomas Stüfe]

Hi Greg,

this is interesting, I always wondered about BSD. Do you also work in
mainline, or only in forks from older releases? Would it not be easier for
you to directly work in mainline? Whenever touching os_bsd code I
tiptoe around BSD sections, but I always wondered if anyone even builds
mainline on BSD.

Thanks, Thomas

On Sun, Jun 19, 2022 at 10:25 PM Greg Lewis <glewis at eyesbeyond.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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