RFC: deprecating SPARC V8 support?

[Christian Thalinger]

On Feb 7, 2013, at 5:16 PM, Mani Sarkar <sadhak001 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I ran the below query to members of the Adopt-a-JSR, Adopt OpenJDK and the
> LJC mailing lists and no one came back with any feedback with regards to
> being impacted by the decision to deprecate SPACE V8 support.
> 
> I hope this helps along with the other feedback you have received from your
> sources.

Thank you very much!  That is much appreciated.  So far I haven't heard of anyone still using it.

-- Chris

> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Regards,
> mani
> 
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> Hello Community!
> 
> We are playing with the idea to deprecate SPARC V8 support in HotSpot and I
> would like to get some input from the OpenJDK community (especially from
> the usual suspects: SAP, RedHat, Debian, ...).
> 
> Is anyone out there still using SPARC V8 hardware or is supporting it?
> 
> -- Chris