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

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 13:34 Mon 11 Jul     , Matthias Klose wrote:
> 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).
> 

As I mentioned some time back:

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2011-March/013215.html

I won't be maintaining 1.8 once 1.11 is released, which will be sometime in
the latter half of this year, once our initial IcedTea7 releases are out of
the way.

Do you intend to pick this up yourself?

>   Matthias

-- 
Andrew :)

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