Current Status of OpenJDK 8 for mips64el

[Ao Qi]

>
> 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
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