JEP 175: Integrate PowerPC/AIX Port into JDK 8 (original) (raw)

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Tue Feb 5 06:53:37 PST 2013

On 05/02/2013 12:06, Steve Poole wrote:

: I agree we do need to tackle the refactoring problem - I just wanted to keep it a separate concern and not made a precondition for this JEP - which I think we all agree on? I am more than happy to help with the refactoring necessary in JDK8 proper over time. Given that there will be an ARM64 port following on along later we do need to start soon!

One thing that might help is that when you have it moved to jdk8 and moved to the new build, is to send out a first webrev so that folks have some idea as to what might be coming. I will guess that a cursory look from a few people in specific areas might provide some initial feedback that could make things a bit easier. I could imagine getting feedback on where AIX or ppc64 specific code should reside, I could also imagine that some of the proposed change will trigger ideas on refactoring to make it easier to integrate.

Although it can't be a prerequisite for this, I assume the AIX port is going to be a reminder that we need to something about jdk/src/solaris. I also think it will be reminder that with the new configure-based build that we should be thinking about moving (over the long term) to more of a capabilities based build.

-Alan

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