RFR: 8209093 - JEP 340: One AArch64 Port, Not Two

[Bob Vandette]

I only did some basic testing of the hard-float abi.  Bell SW has offered to do more extensive testing
as part of this JEP.

I have no way of knowing if any of the other profiles are being used but I would think it’s
worth keeping them in the event that someone wants to try to build/test these other configurations.

The goal of this JEP is to eliminate the arm64 port and not cause any other changes in behavior.

Bob.


> On Sep 17, 2018, at 10:53 PM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Bob,
> 
> On 18/09/2018 2:20 AM, Bob Vandette wrote:
>> Please review the changes related to JEP 340 which remove the second 64-bit ARM port
>> from the JDK.
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bobv/8209093/webrev.01
>> I’ve testing building the remaining 32 and 64 bit ARM ports including the minimal, client and server VMs.
>> I’ve run specJVM98 on the three 32-bit ARM VMs.
> 
> Did you test all the ARM related abi-profiles? It seems to me they were only for Oracle's ARM32 port and may have never been used otherwise. I would have expected all that stuff to be removed.
> 
> Cheers,
> David
> 
>> I also verified that Linux x64 builds.
>> Bob.