From magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com Fri May 6 13:10:04 2022 From: magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com (Magnus Ihse Bursie) Date: Fri, 6 May 2022 15:10:04 +0200 Subject: [aarch64-port-dev ] 8u332 Release In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 2022-04-25 00:55, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > 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?) It's arbitrarily named after a Swedish town.[1] (We usually do not capitalize it, since it is not an acronym.) The name was used as a project name but lingered on as the name of the system of services developed as part of that project. /Magnus [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skara > >> 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