> It is not the goal of anyone at Apple to support these architectures. I am > not in a position to say if anyone at Oracle is interested in doing the work > for ancient PPC Macs. If someone in the community would like to put in the > effort, I would suggest they speak up now.
I understand that PowerPC support is no more on Apple goals and I'm unsure about Oracle. Project Zero is a very good approach to help PPC and ARM users get recents OpenJDK on their machine. That's why I asked about Zero with OpenJDK 7/8 on mainline. There is many OSes around (Linux, BSD, Windows and OS/X) and many processors (x86, x86_64, PPC, ARM) so a serious matrix in some cases like Linux and BSD where all CPU archs are available. Zero is a perfect fit for these OS and even if OpenJDK 7 or 8 are not available for PPC under macosx-port, why not having them with bsd-port ? It's still unclear to me where is the glue between Hotspot, CPUs and OS and how to build an OpenJDK for an OS/CPU replacing native assembly support by Zero.
