RFC: Removal of the ARM assembler port in Icedtea6, unbreaks Zero and Shark builds.

[Matthias Klose]

On 07/11/2011 01:07 PM, Xerxes Rånby wrote:
> Hi team.
> 
> The ARM assembler port that have been broken and unmaintained for about
> a year are currently preventing Zero and Shark from building when using
> the new Hotspot in OpenJDK b23.
> 
> The attached patch fixes Zero and Shark builds by removing the ARM
> assembler port from the icedtea6 tree.
> 
> I will also remove the following files:
> arm_port/hotspot/src/cpu/zero/vm/asm_helper.cpp
> arm_port/hotspot/src/cpu/zero/vm/bytecodes_arm.def
> arm_port/hotspot/src/cpu/zero/vm/cppInterpreter_arm.S
> arm_port/hotspot/src/cpu/zero/vm/thumb2.cpp
> arm_port/hotspot/tools/mkbc.c
> patches/arm.patch
> 
> Ok to push?

Looks fine. Note that I'll continue to create releases from the 1.8 branch (the
last branch I'm using the arm assembler port).

  Matthias