On 11:24 Sun 10 Jul , Erik Trimble wrote: > Folks, > > PPC isn't a currently supported architecture for OpenJDK - that is, no > one has contributed any code to support it. I do know of several > proprietary ports, but that doesn't help. :-) I don't even remember the > last time it was potentially supported (I'm pretty sure that PPC never > was supported in the OpenJDK project). > > To put in more bluntly, no one has built OpenJDK on PPC here at Oracle > for a *very* long time, and I don't know of any Open port anywhere else. > > It certainly would be nice for someone to come forward with a port of > Hotspot to the PPC/Power architecture, as the Freescale stuff (in > particular) is becoming very popular for embedded work. Now that IBM is > part of OpenJDK, maybe they'll be interested? (who knows) > > FYI - "Zero" the architecture, is for a zero-assembly version of Hotspot > (that is, a Hotspot version with as little architecture-specific > customizations as possible). If I were porting Hotspot, I'd start with > the Zero codebase, and work from there. But that's just me. > > -Erik > >
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