[aarch64-port-dev ] Summary of recent jdk7 updates pulled from upstream jdk8

[Andrew Haley]

On 11/26/2014 11:07 AM, Andrew Dinn wrote:
> Either we retain the AArch64 code in its
> own icedtea7-forest-aarch64 forest or we push the changes back up into
> icedtea7-forest. I think we should do the latter.

Yes.  Especially since there should be no significant difference
to shared code.

> Firstly, it means that any forked maintenance release of
> icedtea7-forest will automatically fork a maintenance version of the
> aarch64 code. Secondly, it would allow us to continue using the
> icedtea7-forest-aarch64 forest as a staging repo where we can test
> changes backported from JDK8/9. Any thoughts?

We need http://hg.openjdk.java.net/aarch64-port/jdk7u/hotspot to be
updated top the same level, but without the IcedTea-local patches.  I
would hope that these are confined to shared code, so it shouldn't be
a huge job.

Andrew.