General

This article describes how ports should be handled.

MIPS

Straight-forward MIPS ports

1. Do them yourself.

More complicated MIPS ports

1. CC the MIPS team in the CL. Use the mailing list v8-mips-ports.at.googlegroups.com for that purpose.
2. The MIPS team will provide you with a patch which you need to merge into your CL.
3. Then land the CL.

If for an important reason the MIPS patch cannot be included in your CL and you need to land your change immediately, then:

• Disable the test that fail on MIPS in your CL
• File a separate backport bug, reference it in your CL description, and state on the bug which tests need to be re-enabled in the backport CL.
• Review the backport CL and ensure tests get re-enabled in the backport CL (which should also reference the backport bug).

PPC (not officially supported)

1. Contact/CC the PPC team in the CL if needed. Use the mailing list v8-ppc-ports.at.googlegroups.com for that purpose.

s390 (not officially supported)

1. Contact/CC the s390 team in the CL if needed. Use the mailing list v8-s390-ports.at.googlegroups.com for that purpose.

ARM

Straight-forward ARM ports

1. Do them yourself.

When you are lost

1. CC the ARM team in the CL. Use the mailing list v8-arm-ports.at.googlegroups.com for that purpose.