Status report - August 2012

[Steve Poole]

On 3 Aug 2012, at 18:11, Volker Simonis <volker.simonis at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> 

I went looking for a suitable word  to help express my delight  at this news.
My first thought was "wahoo" but it turns out  [1]  its not what I thought  :-)

So - congratulations on this great news and have a good vacation.
We'll try not to break the builds too much while you're out!



[1]  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahoo