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[Greg Lewis]

Hi Thomas,

We follow mainline but work on a fork.  I usually update our ports from 
upstream on a weekly basis.  It would certainly be easier to have our 
changes merged in, but there are some requirements for that to happen 
that in practice prove to be difficult for an all volunteer effort to meet.

That said, if folks want to tag me on reviews that touch BSD code, I'm 
happy to make my best effort to take a look at them.

regards, Greg

On 6/20/22 2:31 AM, Thomas Stüfe wrote:
> 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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