RISCV port for JDK11u

[Andrew Haley]

On 7/10/23 12:36, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> Personally, I suspect that JDK 11u is in maintenance mode and this
> backport would be rejected with 99% probability. Before you invest
> heavily in this work, please get the explicit pre-commitment from
> current JDK 11u maintainers.
> 
> See the Maintainer list here:
>     https://wiki.openjdk.org/display/JDKUpdates/JDK11u

That's right.

On 7/11/23 10:11, Ludovic Henry wrote:
 > Similarly to aarch64 port to jdk8u, if a backport to jdk11u is not going to
 > happen, we should explore having a long lived riscv-port-jdk8u repository.
 > It would make for a central place for the community to contribute, and for
 > other vendors to base their distributions on top of (Adoptium,
 > Debian/Ubuntu/any Linux distributions, and others).

Exactly so. We should accommodate a RISCV port in the updates repo, but
whether it will ever be integrated into the long-term-stable 11u is
another matter.

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