OpenJDK 8 port for MIPS has been open sourced by Loongson

[dalibor topic]

On 06.05.2016 03:38, aoqi at loongson.cn wrote:
> 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.

This subject was discussed on this list just a few years ago: 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/porters-dev/2010-October/000302.html

In theory, there is already a porting Project for the MIPS architecture 
in OpenJDK. In practice, no actual code has ever been contributed to it, 
and I've been wondering about just having it archived (in my role as its 
Project Lead in residence) as there was seemingly no prospect of actual 
development happening within that Project, aside from queries about code 
that wasn't there ...

With that out of the way, the contribution process for OpenJDK is 
described at http://openjdk.java.net/contribute/ .

In particular, you would need to ensure that all contributors to the 
code you intend to contribute to the MIPS port are covered by an OCA or 
an equivalent.

For example, if you based your port on someone else's work (for example, 
there was an Ultraviolet MIPS Port when the Project started, but the 
code never got contributed), then you need to track its contributors 
down and ensure that all of their code is covered by an OCA or an 
equivalent, as well. The same holds true if your port is based on 
IcedTea - you need to track down all IcedTea contributors whose code is 
used in your port, and make sure they all have an OCA on file.

Similarly, your port should not bring in any third party code into 
OpenJDK. If it does, see above.

If that sounds like a lot of work, that is because it is a lot of work.

cheers,
dalibor topic
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