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

[Volker Simonis]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Andrew Hughes <gnu.andrew at redhat.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> On 2015-02-23 15:57, Erik Joelsson wrote:
>> > I think the jdk changes with ppc64le as CPU make sense.
>>
>> Jumping in a bit late in the discussion...
>>
>> I agree with Erik, having ppc64le as CPU seems the right way to go. I'm
>> just wondering if you have checked the makefiles if there are tests for
>> ppc64 elsewhere that will now fail for ppc64le. I noticed that there was
>> one such change in the configure script, but there might be more in the
>> makefiles themselves.
>>
>> /Magnus
>>
>
> These are the revised versions of the webrevs:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/rh1191652/webrev.02/root/
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/rh1191652/webrev.02/jdk/
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/rh1191652/webrev.02/hotspot/
>
> (HotSpot is unchanged, dropped the sound changes from JDK)
>
> The only other ppc64 block I found is specifically AIX/ppc64 to exclude
> the serviceability agent:
>
> make/gensrc/Gensrc-jdk.jdi.gmk:ifeq (, $(filter $(OPENJDK_TARGET_OS)-$(OPENJDK_TARGET_CPU), aix-ppc64))
> make/Import.gmk:ifeq (, $(filter $(OPENJDK_TARGET_OS)-$(OPENJDK_TARGET_CPU), aix-ppc64))
>
> Does AIX support ppc64le?
>

To my best knowledge AIX neither supports ppc64le at the moment nor
are there any plans to support it in the future.

Regards,
Volker

> Thanks,
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> Andrew :)
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