[aarch64-port-dev ] Freeze aarch64/jdk8

[Edward Nevill]

On Thu, 2016-02-25 at 10:11 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
> The jdk8 development tree at aarch64/jdk8 has been in use for some
> time.  I don't think we need it any more.  aarch64/jdk8u tracks
> upstream jdk8u far more closely: it differs from upstream only in the
> minimum number of places needed to get AArch64 to work.

Perhaps to close out the jdk8 tree it might be good to backport the following patch

http://openjdk.linaro.org/releases/1602/jdk8/patches/8592.patch

This is a really nasty, critical bug and people are still building from this tree,

Regards,
Ed.