Status report - August 2012

[Volker Simonis]

As of now, the project has reached its first milestone. An
interpreter-only version of the PowerPC port is available on
Linux/PPC64. It successfully runs the JVM98 benchmark and is able to
bootstrap itself.

There's a transitional ppc-aix-port project page available
(http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~simonis/ppc-aix-port/index.html) which
contains the nightly build logs of our project repositories on various
platforms (more to come) and a compiled version of the OpenJDK for
Linux/PPC64 which can be used as a bootstrap JDK during the build
process.

The next steps will be to complete the build on AIX (currently only
the HotSpot build is working on AIX), submit some of the shared code
changes for the C++-Interpreter upstream and start the integration of
the C2 server JIT compiler.

Please notice that in August some of the project members (including
me:) will be in holiday, so don't expect much to happen (at least not
for the HotSpot port).

Regards,
Volker