OpenJDK 8 port for MIPS has been open sourced by Loongson

[aoqi at loongson.cn]

> > [...]
> > 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?

Yes, to upstream this work into OpenJDK is one of our main and ideal objective at present. However, we are not sure how to achieve the goal because we are lack of experience in open source.

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

Ao Qi