AArch64 port first release

[Andrew Haley]

On 07/23/2013 05:30 PM, Volker Simonis wrote:
> Hi Andrew, Henrik,
> 
> congratulations! This is really good news.
> 
> I just got really puzzeled when I read the recent Oracle/ARM announcement:
> 
> "ARM AND ORACLE ANNOUNCE PLANS TO OPTIMIZE JAVA SE FOR ENTERPRISE AND
> EMBEDDED MARKETS"
> (http://www.arm.com/about/newsroom/arm-and-oracle-announce-plans-to-optimize-java-se-for-enterprise-and-embedded-markets.php)
> 
> They announced that "ARM ... has entered into a multi-year agreement
> with Oracle to further optimize the existing Java Platform, Standard
> Edition (Java SE) for ARM® 32-bit platforms and to add Java SE support
> for ARMv8 64-bit  platforms."
> 
> How does this agreement affects the AArch64 OpenJDK port?

I don't think it affects it at all.  Even if there is to be a
proprietary port, we'll still need a free one.  And we'll still need
the free one to be of the highest quality.  So, whatever happens, we
must press ahead.

Andrew.