It may be possible to use this code for OSX on G5 systems. It would require additional work for to support 32-bit G4 systems.
-----Original Message----- From: Toby Thain [mailto:t...@telegraphics.com.au] Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2016 3:35 PM To: Curtis Hamilton <hamil...@verizon.net>; 'Joe Nosay' <superbisq...@gmail.com> Cc: j...@freebsd.org; bsd-port-dev@openjdk.java.net Subject: Re: FreeBSD PowerPC Port On 2016-02-13 3:06 PM, Curtis Hamilton wrote: > Thanks for the response, but I think you missed the point of my email. > > As I stated in my email, I've already built a Zero VM, interpreter based JDK. > That's what you get with the instructions you provided. > > My goal was building a true native PowerPC (JIT) JDK, which until about 12 > hours ago was only available for AIX and Linux. > > Using the Zero VM JDK and modifying the Linux PPC code, I've successfully > built a true native PowerPC (JIT) JDK. Which is an order of magnitude faster > than the interpreted JDK. Nice work! I'd be interested to see a path to getting that working on the OS X/PowerPC target. Would you say it's feasible? There is a working Zero build at least for JDK 7. ( ref https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/BSDPort/Darwin9Build ) --Toby > > BTW, I did the research and communicated with Greg, as well as others across > the OpenJDK community. > > Regards! >