OpenJDK 8 port for MIPS has been open sourced by Loongson

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> Hi all,
> 
> Loongson has finished porting OpenJDK 8 64-bit to MIPS (Little Endian).
> Loongson decided to open source this work, including implementation of the
> template interpreter and the C2 compiler. The C1 compiler is almost done
> and its code is also included in the codebase. The work is based on
> jdk8u25-b17 and has a rich set optimizations over the OpenJDK
> implementation. Loongson has been doing this work for years, and will
> continue it, including bug fixing, performance improvement, and version
> upgrade. Loongson has also finished porting OpenJDK 8 32-bit and OpenJDK 6
> 32-bit, which would become open-source in the future. Loongson hopes to
> contribute the code back upstream where possible. Loongson also wishes more
> developers and users could use this work and benefit from it. All
> contributions and suggestions to this work are greatly welcomed. If you
> have any problems or want any support, feel free to contact us via email to
> jinguojie at loongson.cn or aoqi at loongson.cn.
> 
> The Loongson code base is stored in http://hg.loongnix.org. Everyone can
> acquire source from the repositories by:
> 
> $ hg clone http://hg.loongnix.org/jdk8-mips64-public
> $ cd jdk8-mips64-public
> $ sh ./get_source.sh
> 
> 
> About Loongson Technology Co., Ltd.
> 
> Loongson is a family of general-purpose MIPS64 CPUs developed by Loongson
> Technology Co., Ltd. It was formerly called Godson.
> Learn more: http://www.loongson.cn/.
> Learn more about Loongson Java: http://wiki.loongnix.org/index.php/JAVA
> 
> Sorry for sending the duplicated email to porters-dev, mips-port and
> distro-pkg-dev.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ao Qi
> 

The number of mailing lists is confusing. I would think porters-dev is
the most relevant initially, though some distributions that support MIPS
may want to package this further down the line.

Are there plans to upstream this work into OpenJDK and update it to a
more recent version?

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :)

Senior Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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