On Jul 28, 2011, at 3:10 PM, Henri Gomez wrote: >> 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 ?
Someone involved in the BSD-port would have to take on the responsibility of updating and maintaining this code. This is non-zero effort. > 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. Are there any active contributors to the Zero project you can ask? I haven't seen any recent work in their repository. I understand the desire, and I understand the demand, but unless someone wants to volunteer their time (or money to compel someone else's time) I don't see a bright future for it. Regards, Mike Swingler Java Engineering Apple Inc.
