[aarch64-port-dev ] 8u332 Release

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

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