[aarch64-port-dev ] Initial import from shenandoah/jdk8u/hotspot

[Andrew Hughes]

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> Unfortunately this includes some stuff from
> 
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/hotspot
> 
> that is not in aarch64-port yet. In particular, that's everything
> between jdk8u71-b15 (the point where aarch64-port/jdk8u is) up
> to jdk8u82-b00 (the point where shenandoah/jdk8u is). Upstream is
> currently at jdk8u102-b03, so we might want to bring both aarch64-
> port/jdk8u and shenandoah/jdk8u up to that first?
> 

The numbering for 8u was changed, so it's worth noting that, as u75
became u91 & u76 became u92, so u81 and u82 have become u101 and u102,
respectively. So what you have in shenandoah/jdk8u is an early version
of u102.

The next security release is always based on the previous feature release,
so July's security update, u101, will be based on u92. Hence, we don't
want to update aarch64/jdk8u to u102 until after u101 & u102 are released
by Oracle in July.

I strongly suggest you don't further update shenandoah/jdk8u from upstream
or you'll end up with early versions of u112.

> 
> Roman
> 

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