Supported platforms (original) (raw)

David Holmes david.holmes at oracle.com
Tue Apr 10 01:16:32 UTC 2018

On 10/04/2018 2:40 AM, Mario Torre wrote:

On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 6:12 PM, Simon Nash <simon at cjnash.com> wrote:

Thanks for this. I think I should clarify what I mean by a supported platform. This would be a platform for which bugs affecting the ability to build a working OpenJDK binary for that platform would be considered valid by the OpenJDK community and a user-submitted patch to fix such a bug would be considered for integration into the OpenJDK codebase. Being a Community project, I would say everything that is relevant for users is relevant for the project. Now, "everything" doesn't mean "absolutely" everything of course ;) but within reasonable limits "almost" everything is a good bet. If you plan in adding support for new architectures you will have better luck with a Porting sponsored projects, if you want to fix some bugs in some weird architecture that is already existing, or help building with some Linux distribution not currently covered for some reason, I'm sure that will be accepted quickly too, in all cases some discussion would be good to have before start proposing patches.

We are in a situation where previously "supported" platforms (by Oracle) are no longer supported as, AFAIK, no one has stepped up to take ownership of said platforms - which is a requirement for getting a new port accepted into mainline. Without such ownership the code may not only bit-rot, it may in time be stripped out completely. Any interested parties would then need to look at (re)forming a port project for that platform to keep it going in OpenJDK (or of course they are free to take it elsewhere).

Cheers, David

But again, this is a case-by-case thing, so probably you can just tell us what you are interested in contributing and see if there are objections or other reasons not to have that code in.

Cheers, Mario

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