[Bug 237208] java/openjdk11: port to powerpc64

[Greg Lewis]

On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 04:58:01AM -0700, klaus4 via freebsd-java wrote:
> Mark Linimon-2 wrote
> > On Wed, May 01, 2019 at 04:52:10AM -0700, klaus4 via freebsd-java wrote:
> >> Greg, can you please issue a "roadmap" which hardware we should support
> >> permanently (the next one would normally be sparc64).
> > 
> > At this point, my advice is not to spend time on sparc64.  I used to try
> > to maintain ports on sparc64, but I no longer wish to spend time on it.
> > 
> > mcl
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> Thanks, Mark, I almost ordered a Sun Fire :-)
> 
> For Francis Little :
> you could try to set 'Wno-stringop-overflow'  -flag for gcc8, or something
> like that...
> .. before fixing things in the hotspot-subdirectory ( strncat ) , you should
> ask Open-Kurt, Free-Greg & PPC-Pjotr first whether its worth  ;-)

FWIW, I have an Ultra60 (and an Ultra10 for that matter), but it has been a
long time since I booted either of them.  At one point I released a port of
openjdk8 to sparc64, but it got almost no interest and I didn't work on it
as a result.  At this point it seems like sparc64 is unfortunately pretty
low on everyone's priority list.

-- Greg