PowerPC/AIX Port Integration Plan

This document covers Oracle's effort in supporting the integration of IBM and SAP's PowerPC/AIX port into the OpenJDK master repository. Oracle engineers are needed to participate in this effort since there are a significant number of proposed changes in shared code, which will directly affect all JREs on the current list of supported platforms.

As of July 2012, the project has reached its first milestone. An interpreter only version of the PowerPC port is available on Linux/PPC64. It successfully runs the JVM98 benchmark and is able to bootstrap itself. There's a transitional ppc-aix-port project page available which contains the nightly build logs of our project repositories on various platforms and a compiled version of the OpenJDK for Linux/PPC64 which can be used as a bootstrap JDK during the build process. The next steps will be to complete the build on AIX (currently only the HotSpot build is working on AIX) and start the port of the C2 server JIT compiler.

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