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

[Severin Gehwolf]

On Thu, 2018-06-14 at 09:22 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
> 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.

I'm confused. That's the approach we took to get Shenandoah support on
aarch64 and x86_64. How do you suggest to change it? Use
aarch64/shenandoah-jdk8u (the entire forest, not just hotspot) for all
arches?

Thanks,
Severin