Open sourcing JDK 9 ARM ports

[Andrey Petushkov]

Hi guys,

In the meanwhile we've finished the preparation of c1 patch respective to
latest state of aarch32 repo. It's undergoing our test cycle. We'll publish
the patch as soon as it finishes.

Thanks,
Andrey

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016, 21:57 Edward Nevill <edward.nevill at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Bob,
>
> This is great news!
>
> Within the aarch32 port we have a jdk8u tree and a jdk9 tree. Azul
> Systems have been working on a jdk8u C1 port which they intend to
> contribute.
>
> Currently we have been tracking the jdk8u changes in jdk9 and the
> eventual intent was to forward port C1 to the jdk9 tree as well.
>
> I am keen that we continue to work with Azul who have been contributing
> to the project since inception.
>
> Looking forward to how we could incorporate the Oracle port into the
> aarch32 project we can easily create a separate repo for the the Oracle
> port.
>
> Longer term we need to have a single port for aarch32 and aarch64,
> especially when this is merged upstream.
>
> So I think there will need to be a lot of discussion amongst the
> interested parties as to how we handle this.
>
> Again, great news, and something I have been looking forward to for
> some time.
>
> All the best,
> Ed.
>
> On Tue, 2016-08-23 at 10:00 -0400, Bob Vandette wrote:
> > As the Java SE Mobile and Embedded Lead at Oracle, I'm pleased
> > to be able to let you know about Oracle's plans to open source
> > its Linux ARM 32 and 64 bit ports of Oracle Java SE for JDK 9
> > in the OpenJDK Community.
>
>