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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.*
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
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
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
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
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
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