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JDK 8 JDK 9 includes the PowerPC/AIX port.

The port has successfully passed all the Java SE 8 Test Compatibility Kit (TCK) tests on Fedora 19 Linux/PPC64 and AIX 7.1/PPC64. This means that our port is fully compliant with the Java SE 8 specification on the named platforms.

Development of the port in JDK 8 is finished. We are still fixing issues of the port, but do no more downport new features. For example, the C1 compiler port will not be integrated to jdk8uWe are porting most new features of OpenJdk to ppc and aix. We keep tuning and optimizing the port in jdk9.

The JDK 8 port supports the following parts of the OpenJDK: 

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