[aarch64-port-dev ] Freeze aarch64/jdk8

[Andrew Haley]

On 02/25/2016 10:25 AM, Edward Nevill wrote:
> 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,

Andrew Dinn is supposed to be doing this.

Andrew.