Suggestions for porting software and other items

[Justin Hibbits]

On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:52:26 -0500
Super Bisquit <superbisquit at gmail.com> wrote:

> How difficult would it be for me to port JAVA to FreeBSD on the
> Power(PC) platform?
> I don't know code but I can use another port as a a template. I've
> just joined the IBM POWER community and have access to the Linux
> version of JAVA.
> 
> Second. I recently met a gentleman from NASA; I'll get back to this in
> a minute. Anyway ...., NASA's programs are open sourced now.  One
> program/suite that would probably work better on either the Power(PC)
> or SPARC architecture is S4P.
> 
> After talking with the person in question, I learned about NASA's
> internship program.
> I'm just curious as to whether or not there is a need/want/desire for
> having FreeBSD systems in such an area.
> 
> Way of topic: Does anyone think that combining the SPARC and POWER
> architectures into a single cpu would be beneficial?

If you have access to the Linux/ppc source, porting to FreeBSD
shouldn't be too difficult, but likely non-trivial.  Which version do
you have access to?  I believe the latest one available is for 1.5, but
the latest Java for x86 is 6 or 7.  I had started on trying to get
vmkit building, but put that on hold after just getting gcj building
(recall my post a few months ago regarding that).

- Justin