Current Status of OpenJDK 8 for mips64el

[Ao Qi]

Hi Magnus,

Thanks for you reply. Please see inline:

Magnus Ihse Bursie <magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com> 于2018年8月21日周二 下午5:15写道：
>
> The current mips-port project is more or less abandoned. There is just
> Dalibor as lead, and no other registrered contributors. [1] No serious
> activitity has happend on the mailing lists for years, and there is not
> even a hg repository associated with the project.
>
> It does seem like a good idea to revive it for bringing in your mips
> port into a more current version of OpenJDK.
>
> I would suggest that, if Dalibor is happy with it, he should pass on the
> role as mips-port lead to you, since you are actively pursuing the mips
> port at this point.
>

If possible, I am willing to take this responsibility.

> In any case, the first thing to to is for the mips-port lead to request
> a new repository for the up to date port. The project lead needs to send
> a mail to ops at openjdk.java.net and specify the name of the repository.
> My suggestion would be "mips-port/jdk" if the intention is to track the
> current jdk/jdk master, or "mips-port/jdk11" (or jdk8, or ...) if the
> intention is to track a specific, released, version.
>

I support this suggestion. We already have a jdk8 MIPS64 port and we
will maintain it for a long time, so I think mips-port/jdk8 or
mips-port/jdk8u may be needed. I do have plans to upgrade our port to
the latest jdk/jdk master. Actually, I have done some research and
experiment in the past few days. However, I can't guarantee how long
it will take to get the job done.

I have one question about the name. Our port is for MIPS64, and I know
some companies are doing MIPS32 port. I am not sure whether they will
upstream their work. If yes, it is not known yet that whether the code
is merged into "mips-port/jdk11" (or jdk8, or ...)  or into different
repositories. So which name (mips-port or mips64-port) are more
suitable for the current situation?

> Once a repo is in place, I can give further guidance in how to proceed.

Thank you.

Cheers,
Ao Qi

>
> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/census#mips-port
>
> On 2018-07-26 18:01, Ao Qi wrote:
> > 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> 于2018年6月19日周二 下午4:28写道：
> >>> 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
> >>>
>