Fail to cross compiling jdk12 for mips64el-linux-gnu target

[Ao Qi]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 10:51 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> On 1/25/19 3:44 PM, Ao Qi wrote:> FYI, if one wants to debug this issue, below is some sctripts I used
> > to cross compile a mips zero jdk, which can trigger the bug.
>
> Native builds on Debian unstable on mips* work?
>

Worked. We nightly native (using Loongson CPUs) build zero mips of
jdk8-12 and jdk. But zero mips is not stable as boot jdk, some random
crash occurs. I am not sure it is an issue of zero mips or an issue of
MIPS for example maybe some memory consistency issue.


> > do one patch [1] then make images
>
> What about the alignment patch? Is that still required?
>

We do not use this patch.

> > https://git.launchpad.net/~openjdk/ubuntu/+source/openjdk/+git/openjdk/tree/debian/patches/hotspot-mips-align.diff
>
> Adrian
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