<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hello,<div><br></div><div>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).</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Ludovic</div><div><br></div><div>On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 9:01 AM <<a href="mailto:yangfei@iscas.ac.cn">yangfei@iscas.ac.cn</a>> wrote:<br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><p style="font-family:Arial">
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        Let's discuss the 11u version first. I didn't realize such a risk either. This was not mentioned in our previous discussion on the list [1]. 
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        I agree it's a good idea and safer to get maintainer's opinions before we go. Except for the difference in lifecycle, 11u will also differs
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        with 17u in some ways like support for scalable vector register which is used for supporting RISC-V RVV extension. 
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        <span>Regarding </span><span>8u version of the backport, </span><span>AFAIK, </span><span>that work </span><span>has been suspended for some reasons (lacking of resource, etc.</span><span>)</span><span>. </span>
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        BTW: Let me know if someone else is interested in doing the 8u version of the backport. 
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        Regards,
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        Felix
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        [1] <span style="font-family:Arial"><a href="https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/riscv-port-dev/2023-January/000717.html" target="_blank">https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/riscv-port-dev/2023-January/000717.html</a></span>
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<b>From:</b><span id="m_-1276617263379033426rc_from">"Thomas Stüfe" <<a href="mailto:thomas.stuefe@gmail.com" target="_blank">thomas.stuefe@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<b>Sent Time:</b><span id="m_-1276617263379033426rc_senttime">2023-07-11 13:55:59 (Tuesday)</span><br>
<b>To:</b> "Kuai Wei" <<a href="mailto:kuaiwei.kw@alibaba-inc.com" target="_blank">kuaiwei.kw@alibaba-inc.com</a>>, "李三红(三红)" <<a href="mailto:sanhong.lsh@alibaba-inc.com" target="_blank">sanhong.lsh@alibaba-inc.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> riscv-port-dev <<a href="mailto:riscv-port-dev@openjdk.org" target="_blank">riscv-port-dev@openjdk.org</a>>, "Aleksey Shipilev" <<a href="mailto:shipilev@amazon.de" target="_blank">shipilev@amazon.de</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: RISCV port for JDK11u<br>
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                                On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 1:37 PM Aleksey Shipilev <<a href="mailto:shipilev@amazon.de" target="_blank">shipilev@amazon.de</a>> wrote:<br>
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                                Hi,<br>
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On 04.07.23 15:43, Kuai Wei wrote:<br>
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> <a href="https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/riscv-port-dev/2023-February/000749.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/riscv-port-dev/2023-February/000749.html</a> <<a href="https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/riscv-port-dev/2023-February/000749.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/riscv-port-dev/2023-February/000749.html</a>> , we have tested riscv port in our local JDK11u repo. And we think it can be ready for CR.<br>
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Personally, I suspect that JDK 11u is in maintenance mode and this <br>
backport would be rejected with 99% probability. Before you invest <br>
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See the Maintainer list here:<br>
   <a href="https://wiki.openjdk.org/display/JDKUpdates/JDK11u" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openjdk.org/display/JDKUpdates/JDK11u</a><br>
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                                +1. Please discuss your plans concerning 11 and 8 on <a href="mailto:jdk-updates-dev@openjdk.org" target="_blank">jdk-updates-dev@openjdk.org</a> and <a href="mailto:jdk8u-dev@openjdk.org" target="_blank">jdk8u-dev@openjdk.org</a>.
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