CFV: New Project: aarch32 port

[Ivan Krylov]

Vote: yes


> On 3 Nov 2015, at 18:20, Edward Nevill <edward.nevill at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I hereby propose the creation of the "aarch32 port" Project with myself,
> Edward Nevill as the Lead and the Porters Group as the sponsoring group.
> 
> The goal of the project will be to provide a full featured port of
> OpenJDK on the Linux/aarch32 platform. aarch32 is the 32 bit
> sub-architecture within the ARMv8 architecture. The port will be fully
> compatible with ARMv7 and may support ARMv6 depending on community
> interest.
> 
> We (Linaro) already have a working template interpreter and a CR of this
> based on JDK 9/hs-comp has been pushed as a webrev to
> cr.openjdk.java.net.
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~enevill/8139303/webrev.hotspot/
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~enevill/8139303/webrev.hs-comp/
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~enevill/8139303/webrev.jdk/
> 
> It is intended that once the port is complete it will be integrated into
> the main OpenJDK branch.
> 
> Edward Nevill has been working with the ARM architecture since 1989 and
> with the JDK since 1996. He is author of the ARM assembler interpreter
> and the ARM microJIT. He has been working on OpenJDK for aarch64 for the
> past 2.5 years and is a JDK 9 committer.
> 
> The proposed initial set of committers is
> 
> Edward Nevill
> Andrew Haley
> Andrew Dinn
> Joseph Joyce
> 
> Votes are due by Tue Nov 15 15:20 GMT 2015
> 
> Only current OpenJDK Members [1] are eligible to vote on this
> motion.  Votes must be cast in the open by replying to to this
> mailing list.
> 
> For Lazy Consensus voting instructions, see [2].
> 
> Edward Nevill
> 
> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/census#members
> [2] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#new-project-vote
> 
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