[aarch64-port-dev ] 8u332 Release

[Thorsten Glaser]

Hi Andrew,

> It's going to take a while to get the changes into the official
> repository - https://github.com/openjdk/shenandoah-jdk8u - because
> we're still fighting with the SKARA commit system there.

oh, ouch. What does SKARA stand for, anyway? (Or is it not an acronym?)

> Note that we've dropped the 'aarch64-' prefix from this release on, as
> the AArch64 port has been in upstream 8u for some time; the only
> difference in this fork is the availability of the Shenandoah garbage
> collector.

Indeed; someone, maybe you, wrote something like this a few months ago,
and I recalled that and, over this weekend, did test whether we can use
just the normal code for arm64, leaving us with only the aarch32 stuff
for armhf (armel uses Zero) as extra repository. I was able to confirm
it works (for several, albeit smallish, Maven projects) on a porterbox
and am switching the Debian packaging of OpenJDK 8 to it.

Thanks,
//mirabilos
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