BSD port of OpenJDK

[Dalibor Topic]

Greg Lewis wrote:
> G'day all,
>
> I believe Dalibor will shortly follow this up with an official proposal,
> but I just wanted to give a broader overview of whats been happening
> with merging the BSD patches into OpenJDK.
>
> We've now completed all of the legal requirements to be able to merge the
> bulk of the BSD patches in, although it will initially start as a separate
> project of course.  There are a few smaller patches that will have to be
> reimplemented, but nothing core to our support.
>
> Briefly, here is some information about the BSD port:
>
> . There has been a BSD port since 1.0, although the current set of
>   changes can really only be traced to the SCSL based 1.2 port.
> . We currently have support for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and MacOS X
>   and for the i386 and amd64 architectures.  There are preliminary patches
>   for FreeBSD/sparc64 and I'm hoping the zero assembler patches will
>   help us add support for other architectures :).
> . The bulk of these changes have already been through compatibility
>   testing, so we expect the code to be solid already.
> . We've always tried to do our porting in a way that would add BSD
>   support without impacting support for other operating systems, so
>   I don't believe we'll have any impact on the Linux or Solaris support.
>
> Anyway, I'm very excited we're finally at a point to be able to do this
> and I hope this will be a valuable addition to the OpenJDK project.
>
> I'd also feel remiss if I didn't at least mention the contributions of
> Kurt Miller, Landon Fuller, Jung-uk Kim, Alexey Zelkin, Christos Zoulas
> and many others who have worked on the BSD port over the years and the
> support we've received from the FreeBSD Foundation.
>   
Thank you very much for the update, Greg - the initial BSD port proposal 
has been discussed favourably
at length previously on this list, and your update is bringing in a lot 
of goods news, so I'll be making a formal
project proposal shortly.

cheers,
dalibor topic

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