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JDK 8 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 jdk8u.

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

 

linux

big endian

linux

little endian

aix
 
big endian
cpp interpreter no more maintained no more maintained no more maintained
template interpreter yes yes yes
C1 compiler no no no
C2 compiler yes yes yes

 

Supported operating systems and processor implementations

AIX: The port supports AIX 5.3 and later. It is tested to be built with xlC 12.  Patch level 12.01.0000.0008 or higher is required. We do not support iSeries PASE.

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 must be built with gcc 4.8. 

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. 

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