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

[Matthias Klose]

On 07/11/2011 04:14 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 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?

I'm still release manager for the 1.8 branch, or did I miss something?

  Matthias