Contributing to the development of openjdk mips port

[Jonathan Springer]

Hi Qi,

I think there is interest in getting MIPS code upstream, but it may
take some time, since a port is a large change, and there are some
questions to resolve.  I think there are issues of maintenance, for
example.  But for process, as a start, any contributions to the
OpenJDK base must be made by signatories of the Sun Contributor
Agreement, which can be obtained here: http://oss.oracle.com/oca.pdf

In the meantime, we may want to maintain a separate OpenJDK branch
that we merge from the mainline (6) regularly.  Ideally, it would be a
common tree that we use for all MIPS platforms.  Reservoir could host
that tree, if that makes sense.

Jonathan

On 10/18/2010 7:53 PM, LIU Qi wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> My name is Liu Qi and I am from China Loongson Company. Currently, we
> are focusing on the development of MIPS compatible processors. Also we
> have a team working on the OpenJDK port to the MIPS platform. By now we
> have some preliminary results on that. You could reach the code repos.
> here:
> 
> http://hg.printk.org/openjdk6-mips/
> 
> With these codes, we could run Java applications with the interpreter on
> MIPS machines. And by the end of the month, we will finish the debug of
> the c1 compiler.
> 
> In the meantime, we want to merge our codes into the OpenJDK. The
> OpenJDK mips port leader Jonathan told me that we could use the MIPS
> porting project within OpenJDK. Do you have some advice on that? Also,
> we want to discuss some detail information about merging. Who should I
> talk to? Could you provide a name for us? Thanks.
> 
> Regards,
> Qi

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