jdk11u: Question about the likelihood of backporting SVE support

Tue Feb 21 10:10:06 UTC 2023

On 2/21/23 07:57, Xiaolin Zheng wrote:
> I would like to ask if it is possible for the SVE support [1] to be backported to jdk11u, for the maintainers' aspect.
> If the RISC-V backend is going to be backported to jdk11u, then we will face an issue that the VecA implementation [2] used by the backend does not exist on jdk11u.

SVE is AArch64. RISC-V is not. What does RISC-V have to do with SVE? What is the
possible motive for backporting AArch64 SVE to JDK 11?

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