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Date:      Thu, 29 Aug 2019 10:44:58 -0700
From:      Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com>
To:        Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
Cc:        freebsd-java@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: OpenJDK 11 on armv6/7?
Message-ID:  <20190829174458.GA82326@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
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Hi Jon,

On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 08:15:30PM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed that there are bootstraps available for OpenJDK11 armv6/7:
>   https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=236524
> 
> However, I don't see them in java/bootstrap-openjdk11.
> 
> What happened?

I think this is a useful discussion, sorry for not replying earlier.

I'm excited by the work people are doing here to get Java working on other
architectures on FreeBSD.  We've now got the broadest architecture support
after Linux, which is great.  I've been using the bootstraps that people
have been contributing myself, and will continue to do so.

That said, these are binary executables that are being installed on FreeBSD
user's machines.  Trust in the ports system is imperative and I'm going
to be very conservative about the trust judgements I make there on behalf
of all FreeBSD users.  My current position is that I'll add bootstraps
where I or another committer has built them.  This is why the powerpc64
bootstrap took a while (I now have access to powerpc64 hardware) and why
it may take a while for aarch64 and arm6/7 support to appear.  Users
who are willing can apply the simple patch from the PR and use the
bootstrap provided there while we work towards getting it into the system.

-- Greg



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