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Yay! My talk "The Duke and the Beastie - Improving OpenJDK support for FreeBSD" was accepted for @ FOSS North conference 🇸🇪 this year! Looking forward to a couple of interesting and inspiring days in Gothenburg again come end of April.

Hope to see you there!

# FreeBSD # OpenJDK # FossNorth # FLOSS # mywork # talks

Harald Eilertsen

@harald@hub.volse.no · 3 days ago

dch :flantifa: :flan_hacker: boosted

Harald Eilertsen

@harald@hub.volse.no · 3 days ago

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OpenJDK for FreeBSD Q4-2025 status report

Here's the previous quarter's status report for the Improve OpenJDK on FreeBSD project:

#^https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2025-10-2025-12/#_improve_openjdk_on_freebsd

It's already a bit outdated, but from what I understand the status reports will be published in a more timely manner going forward.

Also check out Ronald Klop's work on updating the default java version in FreeBSD to OpenJDK version 21. The report right below mine.

Thanks to the @ FreeBSD Foundation for sponsoring my work on OpenJDK for FreeBSD.

# FreeBSD # OpenJDK # programming # mywork

Harald Eilertsen

@harald@hub.volse.no · 3 days ago

⁂ Article

OpenJDK for FreeBSD Q4-2025 status report

Harald Eilertsen

@harald@hub.volse.no · 3 months ago

⁂ Article

Introducing FLAVORS for OpenJDK on FreeBSD

A quick writeup of my thoughts around packaging OpenJDK for FreeBSD after adding FLAVORS to the OpenJDK 25 port:

Traditionally it's been possible to build OpenJDK for FreeBSD either as the full Java Development Kit (JDK), or as the slimmed down Jave Runtime Environment (JRE) via the FreeBSD ports system. This has been acheived by having two different ports, where the -jre port has been just a meta port that configures the main OpenJDK port for building the...

— https://kodeknekkeriet.net/en/blog/introducing-flavors-in-openjdk-freebsd/

I'd really like som input from the community on this, as I'm not entirely sure about what would be the best way to deal with this.

Thanks to the FreeBSD Foundation for sponsoring this project!

# FreeBSD # OpenJDK # ports # packaging

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Harald Eilertsen

@harald@hub.volse.no · 8 months ago

Over the past seven months I've been working on improving the support for FreeBSD in OpenJDK, sponsored by the @ FreeBSD Foundation.

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When I started on this project, we had about 100 failing Hotspot tests on FreeBSD, in addition to around 40 in the rest of the JDK. Getting below 10 in total (on x86_64) feels like a significant milestone, and worthy of a bit of celebration!

It's been an interesting, and very educational ride. Some of those tests were pretty easy wins, but some required delving deep into the internals of both OpenJDK and FreeBSD, as well as getting acquainted with the basics of the ARM architecture and instruction set. (Remembering how fascinated I was when the Acorn Archimedes was launched, I'd say this was long overdue!)

I finally feel that the OpenJDK BSD port is nearing a state where it makes sense to try to upstream it, and get it fully integrated into the OpenJDK infrastructure and build/test/CI frameworks. There's still a lot of work remaining to get there, it has to be done in portions and with the cooperation of the upstream project, but I hope to be able to spend the next six months or so to get there.

Thanks a lot to the welcoming and supportive OpenJDK developer community, as well as the @ FreeBSD Foundation and the people there for sponsoring and supporting the project, and for providing help and insights about the FreeBSD internals when I got stuck.

# OpenJDK # java # FreeBSD # BSD # programming # mywork

Harald Eilertsen

@harald@hub.volse.no · 8 months ago

Over the past seven months I've been working on improving the support for FreeBSD in OpenJDK, sponsored by the @ FreeBSD Foundation.

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