[RFR] jdk9.0.4+12 + functionality

[Andrew Haley]

On 04/09/2018 03:42 PM, Andrey Petushkov wrote:
> There are the following changes proposed for review and commit into aarch32-jdk9 repo set:
> - update to the latest jdk9u state:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~apetushkov/aarch32jdk9.0.4%2b12/ <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~apetushkov/aarch32jdk9.0.4+12/>
> (2Gbyte webrev, not something you really want to look into)
> - bring all functionality developed by Azul in course of jdk8 projects
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~apetushkov/aarch32jdk9-azul/ <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~apetushkov/aarch32jdk9-azul/>
> almost everything is already part of aarch32-jdk8u repo, although
> we’ve been lagging behind with a few features (primarily c2 and
> crypto intrinsics). We’re apologising for that. And, again, sorry
> for brining this in a typical manner of 10K line patch. The reason
> is that we were not following regular jdk9 development and only
> recently brought out code in line with java 9. So there was no set
> of meaningful changes even internally to Azul but rather something
> close to what you can see at the link above

I'm somewhat baffled by all of this.  JDK 9 is dead.  Mainstream
OpenJDK has an ARM 32 port.  What is going on?  Cannot your changes be
merged into mainline?

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Andrew Haley
Java Platform Lead Engineer
Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com>
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