[RFR]: Add alpha detection to platform.m4

[Erik Joelsson]

Thanks David.

John, your collected changes for adding all of these VAR_CPU* 
definitions look ok to me.

/Erik


On 2017-08-16 21:45, David Holmes wrote:
> Okay I have filed:
>
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8186313
>
> to cover the addition of alpha, mips*, m68k and sh* platforms.
>
> Build folk still need to approve.
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
> PS. I'll respond on each thread for completeness.
>
> On 16/08/2017 11:45 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> On 08/16/2017 03:37 PM, Thomas Stüfe wrote:
>>> Zero itself is not exactly well maintained, and maybe accepting these
>>> trivial patches causes Debian developers to adopt Zero more. This would
>>> be a good thing.
>>
>> Yes, this is basically my main intention. Upstreaming all these tiny 
>> patches
>> means that they don't have to be carried around in Debian anymore and 
>> they
>> become available to every other distribution who wants to use Zero on 
>> the
>> non-Hotspot platforms.
>>
>> Zero receives extensive testing within Debian as people on platforms 
>> like
>> MIPS*, ARMv4T and similar depend on it as their only implementation of
>> the JVM.
>>
>> Adrian
>>