Shenandoah and aarch64

[Andrew Haley]

On 7/15/19 4:25 PM, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 
> 
> On 13/07/2019 09:47, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> On 7/12/19 2:29 PM, Andrew Haley wrote:
>>> On 7/12/19 11:08 AM, Andrey Petushkov wrote:
>>>> Azul fully supports this idea and would like to propose integration
>>>> of aarch32 port as well, please
>>>
>>> It should be pretty non-intrusive, so I have no objection in principle.
>>
>> But, having slept on this idea, I think it's impossible. Features are
>> always committed to mainline first, then backported. There is already
>> an Arm 32 port in mainline, so I doubt that the AArch32 port would be
>> accepted there.
> 
> But that port is not in 8u. That leaves the options of bringing in
> Azul's port or backporting Oracle's port.

Or doing neither.

I don't think that it's appropriate to bring in Azul's port, given its
lack of a future path, and I don't believe we should set a precedent
by making a special exception to the "backports only" rule for
it. Anybody who wants it can get it from Azul.

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