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The PowerPC/AIX port supports JDK 7, but this port will not be . This port was not integrated into the OpenJDK main line for a long time, but finally was integrated into the codeline for extended support maintained by RedHat.  It will remain in the repository of the PowerPC/AIX port (ppc-aix-port/jdk7u).  We will update this repository with update releases of the OpenJDK 7 and integrate all fixes we do in the We will continue to do critical fixes in the PowerPC/Linux and PowerPC/AIX code base.

The port has successfully passed all the Java SE 7 Test Compatibility Kit (TCK) tests on SLES 11.1 Linux/PPC64 and AIX 5.3/PPC64.

The JDK 7 port supports the following parts of the OpenJDK:  

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Supported operating systems and processor implementations

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Linux: We build and run the VM on SLES 10.3 with gcc 4.1.2, but support it on other Linux distributions, too.  The little-endian Linux variants variant must be built with gcc 4.8. . SAP does not do continuous tests for the little-endian variant.

Processor: The port supports only 64-bit PPC machines. It recognizes Power chips 5 through 7 and generates code optimized for these processors. It lacks an instruction scheduler targeted to Power 6, which is an in-order issueing processor. 

Status (see also the main page of the port):

As of December 2018 SAP will no more actively support jdk7u/jdk7u.

In 2016 the ppc-aix-port/jdk7u has been integrated into the main jdk7u code line.

In November 2015 we fixed 8139258 and 8139421 in the little-endian port.

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In April 2014 we also integrated the little-endian ppc port done by Alexander Smundak of Google. This port not yet supports the template interpreter and must be built setting --with-jvm-interpreter=cpp.

In April 2014 we integrated the port of the template interpreter for the big-endian platforms.