PPC/AIX Port Status Update

[Steve Poole]

On 22 Oct 2012, at 18:06, Volker Simonis <volker.simonis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> as you may have noticed, I've just pushed two changesets:
> 
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/ppc-aix-port/jdk7u/hotspot/rev/1efaab66c81d
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/ppc-aix-port/jdk7u/jdk/rev/a06818b39f7c
> 
> which enable the VM to run JVM98 and bootstrap itself on AIX.
> 
This is great progress - well done to you and your team.

> One bigger part which still doesn't work is AWT/Swing because of some
> FontConfig issues. I don't think that there are really fundamental
> problems there, but I just had no time to look into it until now.
> 
> If the nightly build will succeed today (still with the IBM J9
> bootstrap JDK), I'll change the build to use the newly build version
> as of tomorrow for bootstrapping. If that will be successful as well,
> I'll tag the corresponding repository versions as 'ppc-aix-port-b02'
> and upload a binary of that version for your convenience.
> 
> I'm currently also updating the README-ppc.html file with detailed AIX
> build instructions. The new version should be under the
> 'ppc-aix-port-b02' tag as well.
> 
> At that point I'll kindly ask any interested party to verify our build
> experience on as many different AIX-platfomrs as possible and to start
> improving the class library part of the port:)
> 
Ready and waiting Volker :-)

> If everything runs smoothly we can then start thinking about syncing
> with upstream (i.e. with the jdk7u master) which we haven't done for a
> while now. I'd propose to wait until the current hsx24 downport (and
> the corresponding class file change) is completed. This will hopefully
> enable us to use the same HotSpot (from jdk7u) to run both JDK7 and
> JDK8. Once we've verified that such a scenario is really working, I'd
> apply for a JDK8 forest to finally satisfy the long-cherished wish of
> some of the mailing list subscribers:)
> 
> Regards,
> Volker
> 
> PS: Goetz is currently heavily working on the C2 JIT compiler port
> which will be ready for submission soon...
>