Re: AIX and OpenJDK

2012-02-06 Thread Dalibor Topic
On 1/31/12 11:49 AM, Steve Poole wrote: > 1: The scale of the changes to support AIX without Hotspot are small ( ~ > 300 LOC) There are an additional 19 new files that cover AIX specific > build files and providing necessary support for AIX specific filesystem, > virtual machine and p

Re: AIX and OpenJDK

2012-02-02 Thread Steve Poole
On 02/02/2012 10:43, Alan Bateman wrote: On 01/02/2012 18:26, Volker Simonis wrote: I think the prerequisite for a port can not be that there exists access to it on "x86 hardware". With this constraint there will never be an OpenJDK port to other architectures like PPC/Itanium/ARM to name just

Re: AIX and OpenJDK

2012-02-02 Thread Andrew Haley
On 02/02/2012 10:43 AM, Alan Bateman wrote: > This thread highlights that we need to figure out how OpenJDK can > accommodate additional ports going forward. I would be interested to > hear how other projects do this. I've heard of projects that have a > core set of platforms and then additional te

Re: AIX and OpenJDK

2012-02-02 Thread Alan Bateman
On 01/02/2012 18:26, Volker Simonis wrote: I think the prerequisite for a port can not be that there exists access to it on "x86 hardware". With this constraint there will never be an OpenJDK port to other architectures like PPC/Itanium/ARM to name just a few. (By the way, there once upon a time

Re: AIX and OpenJDK

2012-02-01 Thread Volker Simonis
I think the prerequisite for a port can not be that there exists access to it on "x86 hardware". With this constraint there will never be an OpenJDK port to other architectures like PPC/Itanium/ARM to name just a few. (By the way, there once upon a time was a mips -porting project http://openjdk.j

Re: AIX and OpenJDK

2012-02-01 Thread Volker Simonis
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Alan Bateman wrote: > On 01/02/2012 16:40, Steve Poole wrote: >> >> >> I can see your point of view  but the amount of work to support AIX is >> much lower than that for Mac - so I don't see the need.  You obviously have >> some critieria in your head about port vs

Re: AIX and OpenJDK

2012-02-01 Thread Alan Bateman
On 01/02/2012 16:40, Steve Poole wrote: I can see your point of view but the amount of work to support AIX is much lower than that for Mac - so I don't see the need. You obviously have some critieria in your head about port vs no port so I would be interested to understand that in more deta

Re: AIX and OpenJDK

2012-02-01 Thread Phil Race
On 1/31/2012 2:49 AM, Steve Poole wrote: hi all, Last year there was a discussion [1] about adding AIX platform support into OpenJDK. I'd like to pick up that conversation and complete this work. To recap the salient points of the thread: 1: The scale of the changes to support AIX witho

Re: AIX and OpenJDK

2012-02-01 Thread Steve Poole
On 01/02/2012 02:00, David Holmes wrote: Stepping up a level I think we need to address the way we currently arrange our sources and build files along OS/architecture lines before trying to integrate any further ports into mainline (including the OSX port that is currently off-to-the-side in 7u

Re: AIX and OpenJDK

2012-02-01 Thread Steve Poole
On 31/01/2012 16:46, Alan Bateman wrote: On 31/01/2012 10:49, Steve Poole wrote: hi all, Last year there was a discussion [1] about adding AIX platform support into OpenJDK. I'd like to pick up that conversation and complete this work. To recap the salient points of the thread: 1: The s

Re: AIX and OpenJDK

2012-02-01 Thread Alan Bateman
On 01/02/2012 15:02, Tobias Frech wrote: Hi! The following might be inappropriate here, but I found it very surprising when I found out rt.jar contains platform specific code in the classes that are part of the API. I would have expected all of these special cases to be locked away in some sun.*

Re: AIX and OpenJDK

2012-02-01 Thread Tobias Frech
Hi! The following might be inappropriate here, but I found it very surprising when I found out rt.jar contains platform specific code in the classes that are part of the API. I would have expected all of these special cases to be locked away in some sun.* classes. As I spoke to other developers abo

Re: AIX and OpenJDK

2012-01-31 Thread David Holmes
Stepping up a level I think we need to address the way we currently arrange our sources and build files along OS/architecture lines before trying to integrate any further ports into mainline (including the OSX port that is currently off-to-the-side in 7u-osx). The initial scheme (Windows else n

Re: AIX and OpenJDK

2012-01-31 Thread Kelly O'Hair
On Jan 31, 2012, at 2:49 AM, Steve Poole wrote: > > hi all, > > Last year there was a discussion [1] about adding AIX platform support into > OpenJDK. I'd like to pick up that conversation and complete this work. > > To recap the salient points of the thread: > > 1: The scale of the change

Re: AIX and OpenJDK

2012-01-31 Thread John Yeary
Hello All, I like the idea of a port which eventually gets migrated into the main line. I am using the BSD port with PPC. The build was done on an Apple G5 fully loaded. The Zero build I am using works, but the build alone took 3 days using another Zero build to bootstrap. My results may not be ty

Re: AIX and OpenJDK

2012-01-31 Thread Alan Bateman
On 31/01/2012 10:49, Steve Poole wrote: hi all, Last year there was a discussion [1] about adding AIX platform support into OpenJDK. I'd like to pick up that conversation and complete this work. To recap the salient points of the thread: 1: The scale of the changes to support AIX withou

AIX and OpenJDK

2012-01-31 Thread Steve Poole
hi all, Last year there was a discussion [1] about adding AIX platform support into OpenJDK. I'd like to pick up that conversation and complete this work. To recap the salient points of the thread: 1: The scale of the changes to support AIX without Hotspot are small ( ~ 300 LOC) There