RFR (M): 8036767 PPC64: Support for little endian execution model

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> Apologies to Tiago as there were two webrevs and one got stripped from
> the email. Here's Tiago's webrev:
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dholmes/rh1191652-jdk9/webrev.00/
> 
> David
> 
> On 19/02/2015 2:22 PM, David Holmes wrote:
> > Now hosted at:
> >
> > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dholmes/ahughes-rh1191652-jdk9-webrev/
> >
> > David
> >
> > On 19/02/2015 1:35 PM, David Holmes wrote:
> >> Hi Tiago,
> >>
> >> Please email me the tar files and I will host it for you.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> David
> >>
> >> On 19/02/2015 1:02 PM, Tiago Sturmer Daitx wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 2015-02-18 at 07:33 -0500, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> >>>> I now have these changes working on 8u31:
> >>>>
> >>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/rh1191652/root
> >>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/rh1191652/jdk
> >>>>
> >>>> I can re-base these onto whichever OpenJDK 9 tree is appropriate and
> >>>> push when
> >>>> reviewed under the same bug as used for the HotSpot side.
> >>>
> >>> Concurrently to Andrew I also worked on a fix for JDK9 and came up with
> >>> a somewhat different approach (based on jdk9/dev):
> >>>
> >>> http://tdaitx.github.com/openjdk-webrev/rh1191652-jdk9/webrev.00/hotspot/
> >>>
> >>> http://tdaitx.github.com/openjdk-webrev/rh1191652-jdk9/webrev.00/root
> >>>
> >>> To make it easy I already rebased Andrew's JDK8u31 patches to jdk9/dev
> >>> (due to that the webrev ended up with my username).
> >>>
> >>> http://tdaitx.github.com/openjdk-webrev/rh1191652-jdk9/ahughes-webrev.00/hotspot/
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> http://tdaitx.github.com/openjdk-webrev/rh1191652-jdk9/ahughes-webrev.00/jdk
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> http://tdaitx.github.com/openjdk-webrev/rh1191652-jdk9/ahughes-webrev.00/root
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I tested both approaches by building Hadoop (which triggered some
> >>> interesting bugs on various projects due to Jigsaw).
> >>>
> >>> Sorry for the github links, but I don't have an account at
> >>> cr.openjdk.java.net that I can use. I can provide tar files if anyone is
> >>> willing to host those webrevs.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Tiago Daitx
> >>>
> 

Where do we go with this next?

I'm still in favour of my own patches on the JDK side, as I think hiding the
architecture there is just asking for problems further down the line.
-- 
Andrew :)

Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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