Hello, I am trying to run Java application on a PowerPC Linux distro, which is old - Kernel 2.4.22 and glibc 2.3.2. I could not use off-the-shelf binary distributions of JVM from Sun or IBM as I need to build the JVM from source using my toolchain. With help from this list (Thank you, Tim) I was able to successfully run my Java application with Harmony on CentOS 5, x86 as an initial proof of concept.
I am now trying to build Harmony on PowerPC platform. I have built a few modules of classlib, but encountered a problem in threads portlib module, where a number of functions are implemented in assembly language and the ppc implementation is missing. Apart from portlib thread module there seem to exist only two more VM modules with assembly code and PPC specific implementation is missing. The "supported platforms" section on the project website indicates that the PPC port is in progress. What is the current status of PowerPC porting? Is anybody running Harmony on PowerPC? Thank you in advance, Mark.
