[Bug 237370] java/openjdk12: Add powerpc64 support

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--- Comment #16 from Greg Lewis <glewis at FreeBSD.org> ---
In terms of where to upstream patches, it would likely take a dedicated
developer several months to coordinate getting patches upstreamed to the
Mercurial repository.  No one has stepped forward with that sort of time over
the last few years since Java 8.

I've also noticed that it seems to limit collaboration since people have to
sign an Oracle Contributor Agreement for us to upstream their patches and not
as many people are familiar with Mercurial as they are Git.  The interface
doesn't provide the same tooling that a site like Github does as well to enable
easy forking and pull requests.  This has led to a lot of patches existing only
in the FreeBSD port that were generally applicable.

For Java 11 I decided to try following the AdoptOpenJDK ports on Github.  So
far this has been positive in terms of collaboration and ease of releases/port
updates, at least from my perspective.  Ideally we'd still look to upstream
these changes, but that will ultimately still require someone dedicated to
doing so with sufficient time to make it happen.

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