RFR: 8209093 - JEP 340: One AArch64 Port, Not Two
Simon Nash
simon at cjnash.com
Tue Sep 18 17:14:20 UTC 2018
On 18/09/2018 14:17, Bob Vandette wrote:
> 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.
>
I am using the abi profiles arm-vfp-hflt and arm-sflt. So far I have only built jdk9u with these profiles. It would be a
serious problem for me if these profiles don't continue to work on later JDK versions.
Simon
> 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.
>
>
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