Welcome to the aarch32 port

[Kostya Zolotnikov]

Folks,

I put few comments in between lines.

Regards
Kostya
SW Engineering Director
Azul Systems


> On 10 Dec 2015, at 16:19, Edward Nevill <edward.nevill at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, 2015-12-10 at 02:17 +0000, yangyongyong wrote:
>> Hi, Ed, 
>> 
>> Glad to hear this news. Do you have a roadmap for JIT?
>> The jdk8 aarch32 branch is just a stub for now, what is the plan to update it with a port from jdk9 aarch32 backend?
>> 
> 
> Hi, YangYong,
> 
> We do not have any specific roadmap as such.
> 
> There are a number of tasks which can be addressed.
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> 1) Stabilizing the template interpreter
> 
> As the moment the template interpreter is not capable of building itself. It would be nice to get to at least that stage so that we can move away from building with zero.
Kostya: we have several fixes for crashes which we will propose after the back port changes.
> 
> 2) Back port to JDK 8
> 
> As you have said. The JDK 8 tree is just a copy of the JDK 8 Update Master. The template interpreter needs back porting.
Kostya: we are planning to submit the back port change sets for review shortly. 
> 
> 3) Implement C1
Kostya: this is an area of our interest and we are looking at C1 implementation now
> 
> 4) Implement C2
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> The progress of any of these tasks depends on community involvement. If there is no involvement, then these tasks will not progress.
> 
> For my part the only one of these tasks I am looking at, at the moment is task 1).
> 
> 
> All the best,
> Ed.
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