Suggestions for porting software and other items

[Super Bisquit]

JRE and SDK are at version 7 for PPC linux

On 2/22/12, Justin Hibbits <chmeeedalf at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>