Shenandoah and aarch64

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 13/07/2019 09:47, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 7/12/19 2:29 PM, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> On 7/12/19 11:08 AM, Andrey Petushkov wrote:
>>> Azul fully supports this idea and would like to propose integration
>>> of aarch32 port as well, please
>>
>> It should be pretty non-intrusive, so I have no objection in principle.
> 
> But, having slept on this idea, I think it's impossible. Features are
> always committed to mainline first, then backported. There is already
> an Arm 32 port in mainline, so I doubt that the AArch32 port would be
> accepted there.
> 

But that port is not in 8u. That leaves the options of bringing in
Azul's port or backporting Oracle's port. The former seems the better
option, given an 8u version already exists and is in production use.
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Andrew :)

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