From aoqi at loongson.cn  Thu Jul 26 16:01:46 2018
From: aoqi at loongson.cn (Ao Qi)
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 00:01:46 +0800
Subject: Current Status of OpenJDK 8 for mips64el
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Hi Dalibor,

Ping?

Could you suggest me what should I do for bringing the port into the
MIPS Porting Project?

Thanks,
Ao Qi
Ao Qi <aoqi at loongson.cn> ?2018?6?19??? ??4:28???
>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I think that it's too late for a new a port come into JDK 8 Updates Project
> > at this time, with less then a year to go under the current maintainers,
> > considering how long it would take to bring the code into OpenJDK, run
> > through the JEP process, code reviews, etc.
> >
> > It's probably too late for a fresh port to make it into JDK 11, as well,
> > with less than a month to go until rampdown starts.
> >
>
> Thank you very much for your reply and suggestion. I understand that
> it is too late for a new port to be into the main line of jdk8u and
> jdk11.
>
> > So my suggestion would be to start by bringing your port into the MIPS
> > Porting Project, and then, once it's brought forward to JDK 11 and there is
> > a build passing JCK for Java SE 11, to go through the JEP process for
> > inclusion in a later version of the JDK.
> >
>
> I think your suggestion is very reasonable, helpful and acceptable. We
> are willing to adopt your suggestion. However, I have one question
> about your suggestion. Could you explain more about bringing our port
> into the MIPS Porting Project? I'm not quite sure what it specifically
> means. Is that we can put our code into OpenJDK repository (not the
> main line) like aarh64 jdk8u[1] and the further development should
> happened according to community requirements, such as [2][3]?
>
> [1] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/aarch64-port
> [2] http://openjdk.java.net/bylaws
> [3] http://openjdk.java.net/contribute
>
> > cheers,
> > dalibor topic
> >
> >>