Gustavo Luiz Duarte
I'm a software engineer at LTC-IBM. I work on several open source projects to support the POWER architecture.
Email: gustavold AT linux.vnet.ibm.com
IRC: gustavold on <freenode | mozilla>
Firefox on PowerPC
I work with a small team maintaining Firefox on the PowerPC architecture.
If you want to help, need help, or have questions regarding the PowerPC architecture, please join us on IRC channel #ppc64 on Mozilla IRC network.
Status
We have a buildbot running on ppc64 continuously building mozilla-central: http://mozillaproject.osuosl.org:8010/waterfall
We plan to add automated tests to the buildbot soon. We might also consider building for ppc32.
We need help!
If you want to help, here are some areas that need some love:
- JS JITs: JavaScript JIT compilers are currently disabled on PowerPC. Needs porting.
- Skia: currently disabled on PowerPC.
- Bug fixing: there are many open bugs against several Mozilla components (mainly Core) on PowerPC.
- There are certainly other components that are disabled for PowerPC that need to be ported. I will add them here as I stumble upon them.