[aarch64-port-dev ] RFR: Bulk integration of Shenandoah 2018-05-15

[Andrew Haley]

On 06/14/2018 09:21 AM, Severin Gehwolf wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-06-14 at 09:10 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
>>> The way we build our RPMs is that we use the
>>> aarch64/shenandoah-jdk8u HotSpot on aarch64 & x86_64 and
>>> aarch64/jdk8u on all other architectures.
>>
>> Why do we still do that?
> 
> Because shenandoah only works on aarch64 and x86_64. 
> 
> -XX:+UseShenandoahGC on unsupported arches would need to get disabled
> at runtime.

Yes.  But that doesn't explain why we use different repos.

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Andrew Haley
Java Platform Lead Engineer
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